Physics Opportunities in Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC
arXiv:hep-ph/0112239
Abstract
Due to coherence, there are strong electromagnetic fields of short duration in very peripheral heavy ion collisions. They give rise to photon-photon and photon-nucleus collisions with high flux. Photon-photon and photon-hadron physics at various invariant mass scales are discussed.
9 pages, 4 figures Proceedings of the Workshop on Electromagnetic Probes of Fundamental Physics, Oct. 16-21,2001, Erice, Italy