About the Journal

This Journal, the Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions is a joint initiative by the University of Kansas Libraries and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, with the support of the International Program Committee.  

The first international workshop on the physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions was held at the Hotel Iberostart Tucan/Quetzal in Playa del Carmen, Mexico from December 11-15, 2023. The second edition will be hosted in Finland in summer 2025.   

The following research topics were discussed:

  • Recent experimental results at HERA, RHIC and LHC  
  • Theoretical description of exclusive photon-proton and photon-nucleus scattering
  • Nuclear PDFs developments using photon-induced data 
  • Nonlinear and gluon saturation effects in photon-nucleus scattering 
  • Hadronization in exclusive processes  
  • Soft nucleon and nucleus interactions 
  • Photoproduction in events with nuclear overlap 
  • UPCs and future electron-ion colliders 

Subsequent Proceedings of the International workshop on the physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions will be published annually after each workshop.

Copyright

Authors will retain copyright in their papers.  All papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) International license

Open Access

All papers are made available open access.  No fees are charged to publish in the Proceedings.