Electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

Physics Reports

Volumn 453, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-27

  Baur, Gerhard ^a   Hencken, Kai ^b,c   Trautmann, Dirk ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coulomb corrections; Electron positron pair production; Multiple pair production; QED of strong fields; Relativistic heavy ion collisions; Ultraperipheral collisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348877279     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2007.09.002     Document Type: Review

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