Exploring Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions in CMS Run III

Authors

  • S. Popescu Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), The University of Kansas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe69.11.815

Keywords:

UPC, heavy ion, RUN3, nuclear breakdown

Abstract

Ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of heavy ions are a useful probe to study nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) and, in particular, to characterize nuclear matter at Bjorken x < 10−3 and low squared momentum transfer Q2 (shadowing/saturation regime). In order to fully exploit these collisions, dedicated triggers on such event topologies were developed for the heavy ion data-taking period in 2023 by the CMS experiment. These triggers relied on the possibility of using the Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) as a level-1 (L1) trigger detector for the first time. As a result, they allowed for an improved selection performance in addition to existing UPC triggers (as well as minimum-bias hadronic triggers), and enabled the study of hard processes (jets and heavy flavor hadrons) in photon-photon (γγ) and photon-nucleus (γN) scatterings [1].

References

S.R. Klein, P. Steinberg. Photonuclear and two-photon interactions at high-energy nuclear colliders. Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 70, 323 (2020).

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-nucl-030320-033923

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1353482/contributions/6085488/attachments/2921079/5127201/NewTrendPresentation.pdf.

https://cds.cern.ch/record/2887066/files/DP2024_002.pdf

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Published

2024-12-03

How to Cite

Popescu, S. (2024). Exploring Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions in CMS Run III. Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 69(11), 815. https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe69.11.815

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