STARlight: A Monte Carlo Simulation Program for ultra-peripheral collisions of relativistic ions
| Main Author: | Ballantyne, John |
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| Other Authors: | Klein, Spencer R., Nystrand, Joakim, Seger, Janet, Gorbunov, Yuri, Butterworth, Joey |
| Format: | Dataset |
| Terbitan: |
Mendeley
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https:/data.mendeley.com/datasets/xjpf4rxtbj |
Daftar Isi:
- Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) have been a significant source of study at RHIC and the LHC. In these collisions, the two colliding nuclei interact electromagnetically, via two-photon or photonuclear interactions, but not hadronically; they effectively miss each other. Photonuclear interactions produce vector meson states or more general photonuclear final states, while two-photon interactions can produce lepton or meson pairs, or single mesons. In these interactions, the collision geometry plays a major role. We present a program, STARlight, that calculates the cross-sections for a variety of UPC final states and also creates, via Monte Carlo simulation, events for use in determining detector efficiency.