Inclusive meson production in peripheral collisions of ultrarelativistic heavy ions

Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory

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27 pages with 4 eps-figures included, uses axodraw.sty Tab.2 and 3 corrected

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10.1007/s100500070076

There exist several proposals to use Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams photons generated by ultrarelativistic heavy ions to produce exotic particles in $\gamma\gamma$ fusion reactions. To estimate the background conditions for such reactions we analyze various mechanisms of meson production in very peripheral collisions of ultrarelativistic heavy ions at RHIC and LHC energies. Besides $\gamma\gamma$ fusion they include also electromagnetic $\gamma A$ interactions and strong nucleon-nucleon interactions in grazing $AA$ collisions. All these processes are characterised by low multiplicities of produced particles. $\gamma A$ and $AA$ events are simulated by corresponding Monte Carlo codes, RELDIS and FRITIOF. In each of these processes a certain fraction of pions is produced close to the mid-rapidity region that gives a background for the $\gamma\gamma$ events. The possibility of selecting mesons produced in $\gamma\gamma$ fusion events via different $p_t$ cut procedures is demonstrated.

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