Speaker
Dr
Bruno Moreira
(Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina)
Description
In this work, we investigate particle production in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC. In these collisions, hadrons act as sources of quasi-real photons, enabling the study of photon-hadron and photon-photon interactions. We focus on the photoproduction of vector mesons, the production of dileptons and their bound states, as well as the production of exotic states. Photon-induced processes provide a clean experimental environment to test QCD dynamics in vector meson production and to search for new particles in photon-photon interactions. We present a brief review of the formalism and report our predictions for the cross sections of these processes.
Author
Dr
Bruno Moreira
(Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina)
