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We calculate the rapidity distribution and the total cross section of coherent and incoherent $\rho$-production in the heavy ion ultraperipheral collisions (UPC) at $\surd s_{NN}=130$ GeV using the generalized vector dominance model(GVDM)…

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We present a detailed phenomenological study of direct photon production in association with a heavy-quark jet in pA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at next-to-leading order in…

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We derive expressions for the gluon production cross sections in the single diffractive proton-nucleus scattering and DIS processes in a quasi-classical approximation. The resulting cross sections include the effects of all multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Yuri V. Kovchegov

Study of exclusive photoproduction of $J/\Psi$ mesons was carried out in a factorization approach. Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for gluons, which play an important role here, are constructed using the double distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 S. V. Goloskokov , Ya-Ping Xie

The central exclusive production of $\chi_{c}$ and $\chi_{b}$ at the LHC, RHIC and Tevatron energies is analyzed, using the recent unintegrated parton distribution (UGDs) functions available in the package TMDlib. Comparison with data is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 F. Kopp , M. B. Gay Ducati , M. V. T. Machado

The ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions (UPC's) are an important alternative to study the QCD dynamics until the next generation of $e^+e^-/ ep / eA $ colliders become reality. Due to the coherent action of all the protons in the nucleus,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado

We present predictions for the cross sections of the coherent and incoherent $J/\psi$ photoproduction in ultra-peripheral collisions at RHIC and at the LHC calculated for different classes of events depending on the presence of neutrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-15 E. Kryshen , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

We derive the cross-section for exclusive vector meson production in high energy deeply inelastic scattering off a deuteron target that disintegrates into a proton and a neutron carrying large relative momentum in the final state. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Gerald A. Miller , Matthew D. Sievert , Raju Venugopalan

We suggest inclusive hadron production in ultra-peripheral proton-nucleus collisions (UPCs) $p^\uparrow A \to h AX$ as a new channel to investigate single spin asymmetries (SSAs), in particular, to test the assumed dominance of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Sanjin Benić , Yoshitaka Hatta

Within the Color Glass Condensate framework, we demonstrate that exclusive vector meson production at high energy is sensitive to the geometric deformation of the target nucleus and subnucleon scale fluctuations. Deformation of the nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Heikki Mäntysaari , Farid Salazar , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

In ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions (UPCs), the broad energy spectrum of photons enables a variety of physical processes, ranging from lepton pair production to giant dipole resonances (GDRs). In this work, we evaluate production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Atacan Fatih Candar , Mehmet Cem Guclu

The inclusive distributions of gluons and pions for high-energy NN collisions are calculated. The results for several unintegrated gluon distributions (UGD's) from the literature are compared. We find huge differences in both rapidity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Antoni Szczurek , Marta Czech

We present next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions for inclusive dijet photoproduction in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPCs) within the impact-parameter dependent equivalent photon approximation. Taking into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Kari J. Eskola , Vadim Guzey , Ilkka Helenius , Petja Paakkinen , Hannu Paukkunen

We explore the potential of conducting low-energy nuclear physics studies, including nuclear structure and decay, at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven. By comparing the standard theory of electron-nucleus scattering with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 C. A. Bertulani , Y. Kucuk , F. S. Navarra

The gluon distribution in nuclei plays a pivotal role in understanding quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme nuclear environments, yet remains poorly constrained compared to quark distributions. Coherent \jpsi photoproduction in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-14 Pengzhong Lu , Zebo Tang , Xin Wu , Wangmei Zha

An impact parameter dependent unintegrated gluon distribution is constructed as a solution of a nonlinear evolution equation with realistic Glauber--Gribov input. Photon--jet correlations in the proton fragmentation region of pA collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-22 W. Schäfer

The gluon distribution of a nucleon propagating through a nucleus can change depending on how far the penetration depth is. It is a nonperturbative process that we describe by an evolution equation. The kernel of the integral equation is to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Hwa

At high-energies the gluon-gluon fusion is the dominant mechanism of $c \bar c$ production. This process was calculated in the NLO collinear as well as in the k$_t$-factorization approaches in the past. We show that the present knowledge of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Marta Luszczak , Rafal Maciula , Antoni Szczurek

Using a QCD inspired model developed by our group for particle production, the Interacting Gluon Model (IGM), we have made a systematic analysis of all available data on leading particle spectra. These data include diffractive collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. O. Durães , F. S. Navarra , G. Wilk

The strong electromagnetic fields surrounding the Pb-ions accelerated at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allow two-photon and photonuclear interactions to be studied in a so far unexplored kinematic regime. Exclusive photoproduction of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-03-11 Joakim Nystrand