Speaker
Aleksandr Bylinkin
(KU)
Description
Ultra-peripheral collisions are the energy frontier for photon-mediated interactions, reaching, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), γ−p center of mass energies five to ten times higher than at HERA and reaching γγ energies higher than at LEP. Photoproduction of vector mesons and dijets in AA collisions probes the gluon distribution in the nuclei at Bjorken-x values down to 10−5, far smaller than can be otherwise studied. Overview of the recent experimental results measured by LHC and RHIC collaborations as well as advances in theoretical studies of the gluon distributions in the nuclei is presented.
Primary author
Aleksandr Bylinkin
(KU)
