Bound-free electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions - art. no. 032713

We study the bound-free electron-positron pair production in relativistic h eavy-ion collisions to different bound states in a full plane-wave Born app roximation calculation. Exact Dirac wave functions are used for both the bo und electron and the free positron in the final states. Results for the rel ativistic heavy-ion collider as well as the forthcoming large hadron collid er are given. This process is one of the dominant beam loss processes and c an become critical for the operation with heavy ions. A simple parametrizat ion is given as well. We compare our results with calculations of other gro ups.