Speaker
Roman Lavicka
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Description
Photon-induced reactions in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) at the
LHC have been studied using the ALICE detector for several years. The
ALICE detector can measure the photoproduction cross section for vector
mesons at various rapidities, centre-of-mass energies and collision
systems. This allows us to study the energy evolution of the gluon
content of the different targets: protons, Xe and Pb nuclei.
I will give an introduction to UPC studies with ALICE, discuss recent
results, and present prospects for searches of beyond Standard Model
physics in near (Run 3 and 4) and far (Run 5, ALICE3 detector) future
with UPCs.
Author
Roman Lavicka
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
