Speaker
Prof.
George Smirnov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Description
The effects of the interaction of heavy ions with matter caused by
strong electromagnetic fields produced by ultrarelativistic ions are
briefly reviewed. An important feature is that electromagnetic
processes compete with hadronic reactions. Moreover, in certain
kinematics, like in very peripheral collisions, electromagnetic
dissociation processes become dominant. The pair production cross
section starts to dominate over ionisation loss processes at the LHC
energies. The status of development of the software adequate for
simulating the beam transport at heavy ion colliders is presented.
Author
Prof.
George Smirnov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
