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The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV In-In collisions. A strong excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neutral meson decays. The unprecedented sample size close to 400K events…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Damjanovic

The proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce an intense, high-energy beam of neutrinos of all flavors, collimated in the forward direction. Recently two dedicated neutrino experiments, FASER and SND@LHC, have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-20 Akitaka Ariga , Jamie Boyd , Felix Kling , Albert De Roeck

Associated particle production processes in pp and heavy ion collisions at the LHC are in particular interesting in the sense that they provide unique tools to study double parton scattering (DPS) mechanism. In this talk, I will first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-29 Hua-Sheng Shao

We apply the Sudakov technique to description of the multiple production of lepton pairs in peripheral collisions of ultrarelativistic heavy ions. For heavy ions with $Z_1\alpha\sim Z_2\alpha\ll 1$ one needs a careful treatment of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Bartos , S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev , N. N. Nikolaev

We present the full next-to-leading order (NLO) corrected inclusive cross section for massive lepton pair production in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions. All QCD partonic subprocesses have been included provided the lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 W. L. van Neerven

We give a brief overview of our current theoretical understanding of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collision and the properties of super-hot nuclear matter. We focus on several issues that have been discussed in connection with experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. Fries , B. Muller

In recent years, a large number of papers have appeared that dealt with $\EPEM$ pair production in heavy ion collisions at high energies. To a large extent these studies were motivated by the existence of relativistic heavy ion accelerators…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerhard Baur , Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann

It has been shown that the thermal photon and the lepton pair spectra can be used to estimate the radial velocity of different phases of the matter formed in nuclear collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. We observe a non-monotonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 Jajati K. Nayak , Jan-e Alam

We review the nuclear parton distribution functions computed on the basis of our microscopic model taking into account a number of nuclear effects including Fermi motion and nuclear binding, nuclear meson-exchange currents, off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-29 Sergey Kulagin , Roberto Petti

An introductory overview of electromagnetic probes in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is provided. Experimental evidence supporting the production of thermal photons and dileptons in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Jean-François Paquet

By using a Regge-pole model for vector meson production (VMP), successfully describing the HERA data, we analyse the correlation between VMP cross sections in photon-induced reactions at HERA and those in ultra-peripheral collisions at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-25 Laszlo Jenkovszky , Vladyslav Libov , Magno V. T. Machado

After achieving a successful description of charmonia production in proton-proton (pp) collisions within Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics (NRQCD) and modified NRQCD (MNRQCD) frameworks, we now extend our study to proton-lead (p-Pb)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Sudhansu S. Biswal , Sushree S. Mishra , Monalisa Mohanty , K. Sridhar

We report on our recent investigations in photonuclear production of heavy quarks and vector meson in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. In particular, our theoretical predictions are compared with the recent experimental measurements on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado

We present a study of $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$ lepton pair production in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV. The larger $\tau^{\pm}$ mass ($\sim$ 1.77 GeV) compared to $e^{\pm}$ and $\mu^{\pm}$ leads to considerably small hadronic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Jan-e Alam , Bedangadas Mohanty , Sanjay K Ghosh , Sarbani Majumder , Rajarshi Ray

Top-quark pair production in heavy-ion collisions provides a unique opportunity to probe nuclear parton distribution functions and study the time evolution of strongly interacting matter, including the quark-gluon plasma. This work presents…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-22 Patrycja Potępa

I discuss Upsilon production in pp collisions at RHIC, Tevatron and LHC energies, in particular the behaviour of the differential cross section in rapidity and the impact of QCD corrections on the P_T differential cross section. I also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 J. P. Lansberg

In central collisions at relativistic heavy ion colliders like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC/Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider LHC (in its heavy ion mode) at CERN/Geneva, one aims at detecting a new form of hadronic matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Baur , Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann

Electron-positron pair production is considered in the relativistic collision of a nucleus and an anti-nucleus, in which both leptons are created in bound states of the corresponding nucleus-lepton system. Compared to free and bound-free…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. B. Voitkiv , B. Najjari , A. Di Piazza

A sizable rate of events, with several pairs of heavy-quarks produced contemporarily by multiple parton interactions, may be expected at very high energies as a consequence of the large parton luminosities. The production rates are enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Cattaruzza , A. Del Fabbro , D. Treleani

Ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions, in which the two nuclei pass close to each other, but at an impact parameter greater than the sum of their radii, provide information about the initial state of nuclei. In particular, heavy vector meson…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 E. L. Kryshen