Abstract
At RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) two atomic nuclei are stripped of their surrounding electrons and accelerated to near the speed of light. Creighton is a member of the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) collaboration that studies UPC's (Ultra Peripheral Collisions) through the STAR detector. UPC's occur when two nuclei miss but pass each other at a very short distance yet still interact with one another electromagnetically. While the nuclei continue along the beam line particles are produced from the interaction. The production of rho mesons in UPC's of Au-Au interactions has been previously observed by the STAR collaboration. This talk will describe the process of looking for evidence of rho production in proton-proton UPC interactions. I will discuss techniques for identifying UPC's and describe how these techniques might be applied specifically to proton-proton data. I will discuss how rho mesons are expected to be identified in the data.