Electromagnetic interactions at RHIC and LHC

TL;DR

This paper examines electromagnetic interactions at RHIC and LHC, focusing on cross section calculations for processes like electron-positron pair production, highlighting their significance at high energies.

Contribution

It provides detailed calculations of electromagnetic cross sections, including electron-positron pair production, at RHIC and LHC energies, emphasizing their importance for beam lifetimes and background.

Findings

Electromagnetic interactions are significant at LHC energies.

Cross sections for electron-positron pair production are large.

Electromagnetic processes impact beam lifetimes and background noise.

Abstract

At LHC energies the Lorentz factor will be 3400 for the Pb + Pb collisions and the electromagnetic interactions will play important roles. Cross sections for the electromagnetic particle productions are very large and can not be ignored for the lifetimes of the beams and background. In this article, we are going to study some of the electromagnetic processes at RHIC and LHC and show the cross section calculations of the electron-positron pair production with the giant dipole resonance of the ions.