Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-11-04
Phys.Rev.C83:024903,2011
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
12 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.83.024903
The cross section for exclusive heavy quark and heavy antiquark pair ($Q \bar Q$) production in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is calculated for the LHC energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV. Here we consider only processes with photon--photon interactions and omit diffractive contributions. We present results in the impact parameter equivalent photon approximation (EPA) and compare some of them with results obtained by exact calculations of the Feynman diagrams in the momentum space. We include both $Q \bar Q$, $Q \bar Q g$ and $Q \bar Q q \bar q$ final states as well as photon single-resolved components. Realistic charge densities in nuclei were taken in the calculation. The different components give contributions of the same order of magnitude to the nuclear cross section. The cross sections found here are smaller than those for the diffractive photon-pomeron mechanism and larger than diffractive pomeron-pomeron discussed in the literature.
Klusek-Gawenda Mariola
Machado Magno
Serbo Valeriy
Szczurek Antoni
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