Latest RHIC Results on Ultra-Peripheral Collisions

TL;DR

Recent RHIC data from PHENIX and STAR at higher luminosities enhance the understanding of vector meson photo-production in ultra-peripheral Au+Au collisions at top energies.

Contribution

This paper reports new experimental results on vector meson photo-production in ultra-peripheral collisions from RHIC's second phase with increased luminosity.

Findings

Improved measurements of vector meson production

Enhanced understanding of ultra-peripheral collision dynamics

Data at highest collision energies

Abstract

With RHIC running in its second phase at higher luminosities the new data sets collected so far by PHENIX and STAR are allowing improvements in the study of vector meson photo-production in Ultra peripheral Collision events in Au+Au at the highest energy. This is a brief summary of what has been accomplished so far by both collaborations.