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Charmonium pair production in ultraperipheral collision

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-22 v1

Abstract

We study the exclusive double charmonium (J/ψ\mboxJ/ψJ/\psi \mbox{-} J/\psi and ηc\mboxηc\eta_c \mbox{-} \eta_c) production through photon-photon fusion via ultraperipheral collision (UPC) at the HL-LHC and FCC with next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD predictions in the framework of non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD). Numerical results indicate that the NLO corrections for J/ψJ/\psi pair are large and negative, while positive for ηc\eta_c pair. The total cross section of J/ψ\mboxJ/ψJ/\psi \mbox{-} J/\psi (ηc\mboxηc\eta_c \mbox{-} \eta_c) in Pb-Pb UPC is 28.0 (65.1) nb at nucleon-nucleon c.m. energy sNN=5.52\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.52 TeV. Due to the backgrounds from various QCD interactions at UPC are highly suppressed and the event topologies for charmonium pair are easy to tag, the phenomenological studies at the LHC and FCC are feasible. The detailed transverse momentum pTp_T, diphoton invariant mass mγγm_{\gamma\gamma} and the rapidity difference Δy\Delta y distributions are given. The production for X(6900) is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2504.14850,
  title  = {Charmonium pair production in ultraperipheral collision},
  author = {Hao Yang and Zi-Qiang Chen and Bingwei Long},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.14850},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures

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