Speaker
Thomas Boettcher
(Los Alamos)
Description
The LHCb experiment is a unique tool for studying ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) at the LHC. The LHCb spectrometer's forward acceptance provides sensitivity to extremely low-momentum partons in the nucleus and allows for the reconstruction of low-mass resonances produced in UPCs. Furthermore, LHCb's particle identification capabilities allow for the study of a wide range of final states, providing new opportunities to study pomeron- and photon-induced interactions with heavy nuclei. This talk will discuss recent studies of UPCs with the LHCb detector, from light hadron to heavy quarkonium production.
