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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 281-289Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0773-5
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics of Heidelberg University
- Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [06-02-16064]
- Fond of Russian Scientific Schools [1027.2008.2]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Heisenberg program)
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Unitarity corrections to several electromagnetic processes in collisions of relativistic heavy nuclei are considered. They are due to the unitarity requirement for the S-matrix and correspond to the exchange of a light-by-light scattering block between colliding nuclei. We obtain improved results for the corrections to e +e- and mu +s mu pair production as well as new results for unitarity corrections to the production of photons via virtual Compton and virtual Delbruck scattering. These corrections can be numerically large; e.g., the mu + mu - pair production cross section is reduced by about 50% and nuclear bremsstrahlung by about 15 +/- 20%.
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