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$\eta_c$ production in photon - induced interactions at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the ηc\eta_c production by photon - photon and photon - hadron interactions in pppp and pApA collisions at the LHC energies. The inclusive and diffractive contributions for the ηc\eta_c photoproduction are estimated using the nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD) formalism. We estimate the rapidity and transverse momentum distributions for the ηc\eta_c photoproduction in hadronic collisions at the LHC and present our estimate for the total cross sections at the Run 2 energies. A comparison with the predictions for the exclusive ηc\eta_c photoproduction, which is a direct probe of the Odderon, also is presented.

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@article{arxiv.1801.10501,
  title  = {$\eta_c$ production in photon - induced interactions at the LHC},
  author = {V. P. Goncalves and B. D. Moreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.10501},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1708.01498