Coherent rho(0) production in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions

C Adler; Z Ahammed; C Allgower; J Amonett; B D Anderson; M Anderson; G S Averichev; J Balewski; O Barannikova; L S Barnby; J Baudot; S Bekele; V V Belaga; R Bellwied; J Berger; H Bichsel; L C Bland; C O Blyth; B E Bonner; A Boucham; A Brandin; A Bravar; R V Cadman; H Caines; M Calderón de la Barca Sánchez; A Cardenas; J Carroll; J Castillo; M Castro; D Cebra; P Chaloupka; S Chattopadhyay; Y Chen; S P Chernenko; M Cherney; A Chikanian; B Choi; W Christie; J P Coffin; T M Cormier; J G Cramer; H J Crawford; W S Deng; A A Derevschikov; L Didenko; T Dietel; J E Draper; V B Dunin; J C Dunlop; V Eckardt; L G Efimov; V Emelianov; J Engelage; G Eppley; B Erazmus; P Fachini; V Faine; K Filimonov; E Finch; Y Fisyak; D Flierl; K J Foley; J Fu; C A Gagliardi; N Gagunashvili; J Gans; L Gaudichet; M Germain; F Geurts; V Ghazikhanian; O Grachov; V Grigoriev; M Guedon; E Gushin; T J Hallman; D Hardtke; J W Harris; T W Henry; S Heppelmann; T Herston; B Hippolyte; A Hirsch; E Hjort; G W Hoffmann; M Horsley; H Z Huang; T J Humanic; G Igo; A Ishihara; Yu I Ivanshin; P Jacobs; W W Jacobs; M Janik; I Johnson; P G Jones; E G Judd; M Kaneta; M Kaplan; D Keane; J Kiryluk; A Kisiel; J Klay; S R Klein; A Klyachko; A S Konstantinov; M Kopytine; L Kotchenda; A D Kovalenko; M Kramer; P Kravtsov; K Krueger; C Kuhn; A I Kulikov; G J Kunde; C L Kunz; R Kh Kutuev; A A Kuznetsov; L Lakehal-Ayat; M A C Lamont; J M Landgraf; S Lange; C P Lansdell; B Lasiuk; F Laue; A Lebedev; R Lednický; V M Leontiev; M J LeVine; Q Li; S J Lindenbaum; M A Lisa; F Liu; L Liu; Z Liu; Q J Liu; T Ljubicic; W J Llope; G LoCurto; H Long; R S Longacre; M Lopez-Noriega; W A Love; T Ludlam; D Lynn; J Ma; R Majka; S Margetis; C Markert; L Martin; J Marx; H S Matis; Yu A Matulenko; T S McShane; F Meissner; Yu Melnick; A Meschanin; M Messer; M L Miller; Z Milosevich; N G Minaev; J Mitchell; V A Moiseenko; C F Moore; V Morozov; M M de Moura; M G Munhoz; J M Nelson; P Nevski; V A Nikitin; L V Nogach; B Norman; S B Nurushev; J Nystrand; G Odyniec; A Ogawa; V Okorokov; M Oldenburg; D Olson; G Paic; S U Pandey; Y Panebratsev; S Y Panitkin; A I Pavlinov; T Pawlak; V Perevoztchikov; W Peryt; V A Petrov; M Planinic; J Pluta; N Porile; J Porter; A M Poskanzer; E Potrebenikova; D Prindle; C Pruneau; J Putschke; G Rai; G Rakness; O Ravel; R L Ray; S V Razin; D Reichhold; J G Reid; F Retiere; A Ridiger; H G Ritter; J B Roberts; O V Rogachevski; J L Romero; C Roy; V Rykov; I Sakrejda; S Salur; J Sandweiss; A C Saulys; I Savin; J Schambach; R P Scharenberg; N Schmitz; L S Schroeder; A Schüttauf; K Schweda; J Seger; D Seliverstov; P Seyboth; E Shahaliev; K E Shestermanov; S S Shimanskii; V S Shvetcov; G Skoro; N Smirnov; R Snellings; P Sorensen; J Sowinski; H M Spinka; B Srivastava; E J Stephenson; R Stock; A Stolpovsky; M Strikhanov; B Stringfellow; C Struck; A A P Suaide; E Sugarbaker; C Suire; M Sumbera; B Surrow; T J M Symons; A Szanto de Toledo; P Szarwas; A Tai; J Takahashi; A H Tang; J H Thomas; M Thompson; V Tikhomirov; M Tokarev; M B Tonjes; T A Trainor; S Trentalange; R E Tribble; V Trofimov; O Tsai; T Ullrich; D G Underwood; G Van Buren; A M VanderMolen; I M Vasilevski; A N Vasiliev; S E Vigdor; S A Voloshin; F Wang; H Ward; J W Watson; R Wells; G D Westfall; C Whitten Jr; H Wieman; R Willson; S W Wissink; R Witt; J Wood; N Xu; Z Xu; A E Yakutin; E Yamamoto; J Yang; P Yepes; V I Yurevich; Y V Zanevski; I Zborovský; H Zhang; W M Zhang; R Zoulkarneev; A N Zubarev; STAR Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.272302

Coherent rho(0) production in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Dec 30;89(27):272302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.272302. Epub 2002 Dec 20.

Authors

C Adler¹, Z Ahammed, C Allgower, J Amonett, B D Anderson, M Anderson, G S Averichev, J Balewski, O Barannikova, L S Barnby, J Baudot, S Bekele, V V Belaga, R Bellwied, J Berger, H Bichsel, L C Bland, C O Blyth, B E Bonner, A Boucham, A Brandin, A Bravar, R V Cadman, H Caines, M Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, A Cardenas, J Carroll, J Castillo, M Castro, D Cebra, P Chaloupka, S Chattopadhyay, Y Chen, S P Chernenko, M Cherney, A Chikanian, B Choi, W Christie, J P Coffin, T M Cormier, J G Cramer, H J Crawford, W S Deng, A A Derevschikov, L Didenko, T Dietel, J E Draper, V B Dunin, J C Dunlop, V Eckardt, L G Efimov, V Emelianov, J Engelage, G Eppley, B Erazmus, P Fachini, V Faine, K Filimonov, E Finch, Y Fisyak, D Flierl, K J Foley, J Fu, C A Gagliardi, N Gagunashvili, J Gans, L Gaudichet, M Germain, F Geurts, V Ghazikhanian, O Grachov, V Grigoriev, M Guedon, E Gushin, T J Hallman, D Hardtke, J W Harris, T W Henry, S Heppelmann, T Herston, B Hippolyte, A Hirsch, E Hjort, G W Hoffmann, M Horsley, H Z Huang, T J Humanic, G Igo, A Ishihara, Yu I Ivanshin, P Jacobs, W W Jacobs, M Janik, I Johnson, P G Jones, E G Judd, M Kaneta, M Kaplan, D Keane, J Kiryluk, A Kisiel, J Klay, S R Klein, A Klyachko, A S Konstantinov, M Kopytine, L Kotchenda, A D Kovalenko, M Kramer, P Kravtsov, K Krueger, C Kuhn, A I Kulikov, G J Kunde, C L Kunz, R Kh Kutuev, A A Kuznetsov, L Lakehal-Ayat, M A C Lamont, J M Landgraf, S Lange, C P Lansdell, B Lasiuk, F Laue, A Lebedev, R Lednický, V M Leontiev, M J LeVine, Q Li, S J Lindenbaum, M A Lisa, F Liu, L Liu, Z Liu, Q J Liu, T Ljubicic, W J Llope, G LoCurto, H Long, R S Longacre, M Lopez-Noriega, W A Love, T Ludlam, D Lynn, J Ma, R Majka, S Margetis, C Markert, L Martin, J Marx, H S Matis, Yu A Matulenko, T S McShane, F Meissner, Yu Melnick, A Meschanin, M Messer, M L Miller, Z Milosevich, N G Minaev, J Mitchell, V A Moiseenko, C F Moore, V Morozov, M M de Moura, M G Munhoz, J M Nelson, P Nevski, V A Nikitin, L V Nogach, B Norman, S B Nurushev, J Nystrand, G Odyniec, A Ogawa, V Okorokov, M Oldenburg, D Olson, G Paic, S U Pandey, Y Panebratsev, S Y Panitkin, A I Pavlinov, T Pawlak, V Perevoztchikov, W Peryt, V A Petrov, M Planinic, J Pluta, N Porile, J Porter, A M Poskanzer, E Potrebenikova, D Prindle, C Pruneau, J Putschke, G Rai, G Rakness, O Ravel, R L Ray, S V Razin, D Reichhold, J G Reid, F Retiere, A Ridiger, H G Ritter, J B Roberts, O V Rogachevski, J L Romero, C Roy, V Rykov, I Sakrejda, S Salur, J Sandweiss, A C Saulys, I Savin, J Schambach, R P Scharenberg, N Schmitz, L S Schroeder, A Schüttauf, K Schweda, J Seger, D Seliverstov, P Seyboth, E Shahaliev, K E Shestermanov, S S Shimanskii, V S Shvetcov, G Skoro, N Smirnov, R Snellings, P Sorensen, J Sowinski, H M Spinka, B Srivastava, E J Stephenson, R Stock, A Stolpovsky, M Strikhanov, B Stringfellow, C Struck, A A P Suaide, E Sugarbaker, C Suire, M Sumbera, B Surrow, T J M Symons, A Szanto de Toledo, P Szarwas, A Tai, J Takahashi, A H Tang, J H Thomas, M Thompson, V Tikhomirov, M Tokarev, M B Tonjes, T A Trainor, S Trentalange, R E Tribble, V Trofimov, O Tsai, T Ullrich, D G Underwood, G Van Buren, A M VanderMolen, I M Vasilevski, A N Vasiliev, S E Vigdor, S A Voloshin, F Wang, H Ward, J W Watson, R Wells, G D Westfall, C Whitten Jr, H Wieman, R Willson, S W Wissink, R Witt, J Wood, N Xu, Z Xu, A E Yakutin, E Yamamoto, J Yang, P Yepes, V I Yurevich, Y V Zanevski, I Zborovský, H Zhang, W M Zhang, R Zoulkarneev, A N Zubarev; STAR Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.

PMID: 12513197
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.272302

Abstract

The STAR Collaboration reports the first observation of exclusive rho(0) photoproduction, AuAu-->AuAurho(0), and rho(0) production accompanied by mutual nuclear Coulomb excitation, AuAu-->Au*Au*rho(0), in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions. The rho(0) have low transverse momenta, consistent with coherent coupling to both nuclei. The cross sections at sqrt[s(NN)]=130 GeV agree with theoretical predictions treating rho(0) production and Coulomb excitation as independent processes.