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This contribution presents an overview of recent measurements of photon-induced processes in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) performed with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Results from Run~2 include detailed studies of exclusive vector…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-11 Anisa Khatun

We present the first positive direct photon results in Au+Au at sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV along with initial p+p results at the same energy. The p+p result is found to be consistent with NLO perturbative QCD predictions within its large…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Justin Frantz

We present first measurable predictions for electromagnetic (two-photon) double scattering production of two positron-electron pairs in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at LHC. Measureable cross sections are obtained with realistic cuts…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

We present the first data on $e^+e^-$ pair production accompanied by nuclear breakup in ultra-peripheral gold-gold collisions at a center of mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon pair. The nuclear breakup requirement selects events at small…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Adams

The latest PHENIX results for particle production are presented in this paper. A suppression of the yield of high p_t (transverse momentum) hadrons in central Au+Au collisions is found. In contrast, direct photons are not suppressed in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Csanad

Direct photon production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV has been measured in the $p_T$ range of 1$<$$p_T$$<$5 GeV/$c$. The yield as acfunction of centrality is in agreement with published data of the RHIC 2002 run, and with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Takao Sakaguchi

We study the lepton pair photoproduction in peripheral heavy-ion collisions based on the formalism in our previous work [Phys. Rev. D 104, 056011 (2021)]. We present the numerical results for the distributions of the transverse momentum,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Ren-jie Wang , Shuo Lin , Shi Pu , Yi-fei Zhang , Qun Wang

The production of charged kaon pairs in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions can proceed via photoproduction (gamma-Pomeron interaction) or via photon-photon fusion. An important contribution to this process arises from the decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Nikhil Krishna , Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

This Letter reports the first measurement of photonuclear D$^0$ meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. The study is performed using lead-lead collision data, with an integrated luminosity of 1.34 nb$^{-1}$, collected by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-28 CMS Collaboration

Photonuclear reactions are induced by the strong electromagnetic field generated by ultrarelativistic heavy ions. These processes have been extensively studied in ultraperipheral collisions. In recent years, the observation of coherent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-07-16 L. Massacrier

In ultraperipheral collisions (UPC) of nuclei the impact of Lorentz-contracted electromagnetic fields of collision partners leads to their excitations. In case of heavy nuclei the emission of neutrons is a main deexcitation channel and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Uliana Dmitrieva , Igor Pshenichnov

Photoproduction of heavy quarks in ultraperipheral collisions can help elucidate important features of the physics of heavy quarks in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Due to the dependence on parton distributions it can also potentially offer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-12 Adeola Adeluyi , Trang Nguyen

In this paper, we present an analysis of coincident particle production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. In particular, we present the first detailed and differential predictions for coincident $\rho^0$ meson production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-24 L. A. Harland-Lang

Recent measurements of J/$\psi$ photoproduction based on data from ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions recorded by the ALICE experiment during Run 2 of the LHC are presented. Photoproduction as a photon-induced process is sensitive…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-02-27 David Grund

We investigate the photoproduction of $\rho$ mesons in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies in the dipole approach and within two phenomenological models based on the the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado

In $\rho^0$ photoproduction in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions, either ion can be the photon emitter or the target. The two possibilities are indistinguishable, and they should be able to interfere, reducing $rho^0$ production at low…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Spencer R. Klein

The photoproduction of $J/\Psi$ in peripheral Oxygen - Oxygen ($OO$) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is investigated considering distinct assumptions for the modeling of the nuclear photon flux, overlap function and dipole -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Pedro E. A. da Costa , André V. Giannini , Victor P. Gonçalves , Bruno D. Moreira

Direct photons are ideal tools to investigate kinematical and thermodynamical conditions of heavy ion collisions since they are emitted from all stages of the collision and once produced they leave the interaction region without further…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 G. David

In this work, we perform a model-to-data comparison for U+U and Au+Au collisions performed at RHIC at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = $193$ GeV and $200$ GeV, using a multistage framework. Model calculations for various configurations of $^{238}$U…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-17 Nicolas Fortier , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We report measurements for coherent rho^0 production, AuAu->AuAu rho^0, and coherent rho^0 and e^+e^- pair production accompanied by mutual nuclear Coulomb excitation, AuAu->Au*Au* rho^0 and AuAuee, in ultra-peripheral relativistic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Falk Meissner , Vladimir B. Morozov