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At high energy, the gluon distribution in nuclei reaches large densities and eventually saturates due to recombinations, that play an important role in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The Color Glass Condensate provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Francois Gelis

Two-photon interference, a quantum phenomenon arising from the principle of indistinguishability, is a powerful tool for quantum state engineering and plays a fundamental role in various quantum technologies. These technologies demand…

We calculated the production of the Higgs boson (H) by two-photon interaction with the equivalent photon approximation in nucleus-nucleus collision, proton-nucleus collision, and proton-proton collision. The numerical results show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-05 Gongming Yu , Wenlong Sun

This work studies the production of direct photons in relativistic nuclear collisions, along with the production of hadrons. Radiation from the very first instants to the final moments of the evolution is included. The hybrid model used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Charles Gale , Jean-François Paquet , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen

Photonuclear reactions are induced by the strong electromagnetic field generated by ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. These processes have been extensively studied in ultraperipheral collisions, where the impact parameter is larger…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-02-21 Afnan Shatat

We examine the discovery potential for double Higgs production at the high luminosity LHC in the final state with two $b$-tagged jets, two leptons and missing transverse momentum. Although this dilepton final state has been considered a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-19 Jeong Han Kim , Minho Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Konstantin T. Matchev , Myeonghun Park

We present a comprehensive analysis of photon production at RHIC and the LHC, proposing radiative hadronization as an additional photon source in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. For thermal photon, we perform relativistic viscous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-15 Hirotsugu Fujii , Kazunori Itakura , Katsunori Miyachi , Chiho Nonaka

The couplings of Higgs particles to two photons are analyzed in the threshold region, where the Higgs mass is about twice the loop--particle mass leading to possible bound state formation. The amplitude of the pseudoscalar decay $A\to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kirill Melnikov , Michael Spira , Oleg Yakovlev

We consider interpretations of the recent $\sim 3 \sigma$ reports by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations of a possible $X(\sim 750~{\rm GeV})$ state decaying into $\gamma \gamma$ final states. We focus on the possibilities that this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 John Ellis , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Jérémie Quevillon , Veronica Sanz , Tevong You

We investigate the production of direct photons in central Au-Au collisions at the relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at 200 GeV per nucleon, considering all possible sources. We treat thermal photons emitted from a quark-gluon plasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Fu-Ming Liu , Klaus Werner

Giant resonances and giant resonances built on other giant resonances in nuclei are observed with very large cross sections in relativistic heavy ion collisions. A theoretical effort is underway to understand the reaction mechanism which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 C. A. Bertulani

The photon production arising due to time variation of the medium has been considered. The Hamilton formalism for photons in time-variable medium (plasma) has been developed with application to inclusive photon production. The results have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 I. V. Andreev

The study of electron-positron collisions at center-of-mass energies corresponding to charmonium production has reached new levels of sensitivity thanks to experiments by the BES and CLEO Collaborations. Final states $\gamma P$, where $P$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Jonathan L. Rosner

This paper investigates the electromagnetic production of lepton pairs with low transverse momentum in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We estimate the initial photons' transverse momentum contributions by employing models where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Spencer Klein , Al Mueller , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

Heavy ion collisions at RHIC and at the LHC can create the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter at very high temperatures. Among a plethora of particles that are produced in these collisions, also light is emitted throughout the evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-03 Andreas Ipp

We study the jet activity that accompanies the production by gluon fusion of a new physics scalar particle decaying into photons at the LHC. In the considered scenarios, both the production and decay mechanisms are governed by loop-induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-15 Benjamin Fuks , Dong Woo Kang , Seong Chan Park , Min-Seok Seo

The only way to obtain the space-time structure of heavy ion collision is through the study of two-particle momentum correlations. Thus we have studied the intensity correlation for the photons having fixed transverse momentum of one of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-17 Payal Mohanty , Mahatsab Mandal , Pradip K Roy

Heavy vector mesons detected after a heavy ion collision are important sources of information about the quark gluon plasma. The fraction of such particles that survive the plasma phase and reach the detectors is related to the dissociation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Nelson R. F. Braga , Luiz F. Ferreira

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) collisions of heavy ions at nucleon-nucleon energies of 200 GeV appear to have created a new form of matter thought to be a deconfined state of the partons that ordinarily are bound in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 M. J. Leitch

We propose a simplified model to study the possible new heavy diphoton resonance from cascade decay of a heavier particle at colliders, which may be related to the dark matter or other new physics beyond the standard model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-27 Fa Peng Huang , Chong Sheng Li , Ze Long Liu , Yan Wang