Production of one or two vector mesons in peripheral high-energy collisions of heavy ions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the production mechanisms of one or two vector mesons in high-energy peripheral heavy-ion collisions using QED, providing cross sections and the impact of reggeization effects.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed QED-based model for vector meson production, including virtuality dependence and reggeization effects, which are novel in this context.

Findings

Cross sections for single and double vector meson production are calculated.

Explicit virtuality dependence is derived within a quark model.

Reggeization effects significantly influence double meson production.

Abstract

We study the production of spin-one mesons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions with peripheral kinematics in the framework of QED. The cross sections of the production of a single vector meson and of two different ones are presented. The explicit dependence on the virtuality of the intermediate vector meson is obtained within a quark model. The effect of reggeization of the intermediate vector meson state in the case of the production of two vector mesons is taken into account.