Detailed balance description of energetic photons in heavy-ion collisions

M Prakash, P Braun-Munzinger, J Stachel, N Alamanos - Physical Review C, 1988 - APS
Photon production cross sections in intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions are calculated
using detailed balance. The model gives substantial photon yields and reproduces …

Direct photon production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

P Stankus - Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract We examine the uses of direct photons in diagnosing the highly excited state of
nuclear matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions. The traditional focus has been on …

Two-photon production of dilepton pairs in peripheral heavy ion collisions

SR Klein - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
The STAR collaboration has observed an excess production of e+ e− pairs in relativistic
heavy ion collisions, over the expectations from hadronic production models. The excess …

Physics of ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions

CA Bertulani, SR Klein, J Nystrand - Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Moving highly-charged ions carry strong electromagnetic fields that act as a beam
of photons. In collisions at large impact parameters, hadronic interactions are not possible …

High energy γ-ray emission in heavy-ion collisions

W Bauer, W Cassing, U Mosel, M Tohyama… - Nuclear Physics A, 1986 - Elsevier
We calculate double-differential cross sections for energetic photon production in
intermediate energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. The production mechanism is assumed to …

Photon and gluon induced processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

F Krauss, M Greiner, G Soff - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 1997 - Elsevier
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC represent an intense source for photon
induced processes. The strong transverse electromagnetic fields of the colliding heavy ions …

[HTML][HTML] Photonuclear and two-photon interactions at high-energy nuclear colliders

SR Klein, P Steinberg - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of heavy ions and protons are the energy frontier for
electromagnetic interactions. Both photonuclear and two-photon collisions are studied at …

Electromagnetic dissociation of Pb nuclei in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

M Vidović, M Greiner, G Soff - Physical Review C, 1993 - APS
We calculate the total electromagnetic dissociation cross section in peripheral heavy-ion
collisions Pb 208+ 208 Pb for the planned Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the …

Photon interferometry and size of the hot zone in relativistic heavy ion collisions

J Alam, B Mohanty, P Roy, S Sarkar, B Sinha - Physical Review C, 2003 - APS
The parameters obtained from the theoretical analysis of the single-photon spectra observed
by the WA98 Collaboration at Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) energies have been used to …

Probing heavy ion collisions with bremsstrahlung

CM Ko, G Bertsch, J Aichelin - Physical Review C, 1985 - APS
We calculate bremsstrahlung spectra for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions to see the
sensitivity of photon cross sections to reaction dynamics. Modeling the collisions with the …