Photon-induced processes in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

After a brief introduction we examine the electromagnetic dissociation of Au nuclei at RHIC energies of E_i_o_n = 100 GeV/u. The next section deals with the electromagnetic creation of mesons. In particular, we present the rapidity distribution of generated boson pairs. Then we turn the discussion to central ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. After introducing the general working scheme for the evaluation of particle yields we concentrate ou our considerations on the Z"0-boson production. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: RO 801(93-80) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman