NONSTANDARD GAMMA-GAMMA-]L+L- PROCESSES IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

被引:10
作者
ALMEIDA, LD [1 ]
NATALE, AA [1 ]
NOVAES, SF [1 ]
EBOLI, OJP [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV SAO PAULO,INST FIS,SAO PAULO,BRAZIL
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1991年 / 44卷 / 01期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.44.118
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We study lepton pair production in heavy-ion collisions with emphasis on nonstandard contributions to the QED subprocess gamma-gamma --> l+l-. The existence of compositeness of fermions and/or bosons can be tested in this reaction up to the TeV mass scale. We show that for some processes the capabilities of relativistic heavy-ion colliders to disclose new physics surpass the possibilities of e+e- or ppBAR machines. In particular, spin-zero composite particles which couple predominantly to two photons, predicted in composite models, can be studied in a broad range of masses.
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页码:118 / 126
页数:9
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