DOI 10.1007/s100529800717
Bremsstrahlung pair production in relativistic heavy ion collision
Helmar Meier1 - Kai Hencken1,2 - Dirk Trautmann1 - Gerhard Baur3
1 Institut für Physik der Universität Basel,
4056 Basel, Switzerland
2 National Institute of Nuclear Theory, University of
Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
3 Institut für Kernphysik (Theorie), Forschungszentrum Jülich,
52425 Jülich, Germany
Received: 4 March 1997 / Revised version: 8 July 1997 / Published online: 20 February 1998
Abstract
We calculate production of electron- and muon-pairs by the
bremsstrahlung process in hadron collisions
and compare it with the dominant two-photon
process. Results for the total cross section are given for
proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions at energies of the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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