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Mapping the electromagnetic fields of heavy-ion collisions with the Breit-Wheeler process

James Daniel Brandenburg
(
- Brookhaven and
- Stony Brook U.
)
,
Wangmei Zha
(
- USTC, Hefei
)
,
Zhangbu Xu
(
- Brookhaven
)

Mar 30, 2021

23 pages

Published in:

Eur.Phys.J.A 57 (2021) 10, 299

Published: Oct 29, 2021

e-Print:

2103.16623 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00595-5

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Abstract: (Springer)

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are expected to produce the strongest electromagnetic fields in the known Universe. These highly-Lorentz contracted fields can manifest themselves as linearly polarized quasi-real photons that can interact via the Breit-Wheeler process to produce lepton anti-lepton pairs. The energy and momentum distribution of the produced dileptons carry information about the strength and spatial distribution of the colliding fields. Recently it has been demonstrated that photons from these fields can interact even in heavy-ion collisions with hadronic overlap, providing a purely electromagnetic probe of the produced medium. In this review we discuss the recent theoretical progress and experimental advances for mapping the ultra-strong electromagnetic fields produced in heavy-ion collisions via measurement of the Breit-Wheeler process.

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updated, v2 was incorrect manuscript and metadata

Heavy-ion collisions
Quark-gluon plasma
Two-photon interactions
Electromagnetic Fields
Photon Polarization
heavy ion: scattering
electromagnetic field: high
equivalent photon approximation
photon: polarization
polarization: longitudinal

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