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# Photon-photon production of lepton, quark and meson pairs in peripheral heavy ion collisions

10/2011;
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT We review our recent results on exclusive production of $\mu^+ \mu^-$, heavy
quark-antiquark, and meson-antimeson pairs in ultraperipheral,
ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.

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