Abstract
We estimate electromagnetic (ultraperipheral) and strong contributions to d+Au soft coherent inelastic diffraction at RHIC, d+Au →X+Au. We show that the electromagnetic contribution is the dominant one and that the corresponding cross section is sizable, σe.m.d+Au→X+Au=214 mb, which constitutes 10% of the total dAu inelastic cross section.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 067901 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Jun 30 2008 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics