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$J/\Psi$ Photoproduction in Peripheral AA Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-08-07 v2

Abstract

The exclusive photoproduction of the heavy vector mesons J/ΨJ/\Psi is investigated in the context of peripheral lead-lead collisions for the energies available at the LHC, s=2.76\sqrt{s}=2.76 TeV and s=5.02\sqrt{s}=5.02 TeV. Using the light-cone color dipole formalism, it was calculated the rapidity distribution in two centrality bins 50\%-70\% and 70\%-90\% in order to evaluate its robustness in extrapolating down to smaller impact parameter. It is introduced a modified photon flux, without change in the photonuclear cross section in relation to the ultraperipheral (UPC) case. Results were obtained for the two regions analized, which presented a maximum difference of 27\% in frontal rapidity for the two regions. Comparing the results for s=2.76\sqrt{s}=2.76 TeV and s=5.02\sqrt{s}=5.02 TeV, it was verified an increase of approximately half the one obtained in ultraperipheral regime in the central rapidity region.

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@article{arxiv.1705.05053,
  title  = {$J/\Psi$ Photoproduction in Peripheral AA Collisions},
  author = {M. B. Gay Ducati and S. Martins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05053},
  year   = {2018}
}
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