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We calculate the centrality dependence for coherent photoproduction of very low-$p_{T}$ $J/\psi$ at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies within the impact parameter dependent saturated color dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-17 Gongming Yu , Yanbing Cai , Yongping Fu , Haitao Yang , Quangui Gao , Qiang Hu , Liyuan Hu , Wei Li , Yushou Song

The measurement of light vector meson production (\rho, \omega, \phi) in pp collisions provides insight into soft Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes in the LHC energy range. Calculations in this regime are based on QCD inspired…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-09-25 Elisa Incani

We demonstrate that study of large t vector meson photoproduction with rapidity gaps in ultraperipheral proton-ion and ion-ion collisions at LHC would allow to investigate the energy dependence of cross section of elastic scattering of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Frankfurt , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

Exclusive vector meson production reactions such as $Au + Au \to Au + Au + V$, where $V=\rho, \omega, \phi$ or $J/\psi$ can proceed through photon-Pomeron and photon-meson interactions. Photons from the electromagnetic field of one nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Spencer Klein , Joakim Nystrand

The comparison of photoproduction cross sections for $c\bar{c}$ and b-b(bar) in PbPb and pPb collisions can give sensitivity to nuclear shadowing effects. The photoproduction of vector mesons is even more sensitive to the underlying gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-25 Adeola Adeluyi , C. A. Bertulani , M. J. Murray

Vector meson photoproduction at high energies has attracted increased interest in recent years due to the unique kinematical ranges offered by the LHC experiments. The ALICE and LHCb collaborations have provided measurements of vector meson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-08 Simone Ragoni

This Letter reports the first measurement of photonuclear D$^0$ meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. The study is performed using lead-lead collision data, with an integrated luminosity of 1.34 nb$^{-1}$, collected by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-28 CMS Collaboration

Photoproduction of heavy quarks in ultraperipheral collisions can help elucidate important features of the physics of heavy quarks in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Due to the dependence on parton distributions it can also potentially offer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-12 Adeola Adeluyi , Trang Nguyen

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of relativistic ions are an important tool for studying photoproduction at high energies. Vector meson photoproduction is an important tool for nuclear structure measurements and other applications. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-28 Spencer. R. Klein , Ya-Ping Xie

We present a detailed study of vector meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions (UPCs). Using the dipole model, we develop a framework for the joint impact parameter and transverse momentum dependent cross sections. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Hongxi Xing , Cheng Zhang , Jian Zhou , Ya-Jin Zhou

Photoproduction in ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions displays many unique features, often involving quantum mechanical coherence and two-source interference between photon emission from the two ions. We review the recent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-28 James Daniel Brandenburg , Spencer R. Klein , Zhangbu Xu , Shuai Yang , Wangmei Zha , Jian Zhou

An analysis of prompt photon production in high energy nuclear collisions at the LHC energy regime is performed within the parton saturation picture taking into account the updated phenomenological color dipole models. The results are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-14 G. Sampaio dos Santos , G. Gil da Silveira , M. V. T. Machado

A significant excess of J/$\psi$ yield at very low transverse momentum ($p_T < 0.3$ GeV/c) was observed by the ALICE and STAR collaborations in peripheral A+A collisions, which points to evidence of coherent photoproduction of J/$\psi$ in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 W. Zha , S. R. Klein , R. Ma , L. Ruan , T. Todoroki , Z. Tang , Z. Xu , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang

Vector meson photoproduction is an important probe of nuclear structure. Light vector mesons are most sensitive to low$-x$ structure, as long as they are not too light for perturbative QCD calculations. The $\rho'$ is of interest as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Neha Devi , Minjung Kim , Spencer R. Klein , Janet Seger

The cross-sections of exclusive (coherent) photoproduction $J/\psi$ and $\psi(\mathrm{2S})$ mesons in ultra-peripheral PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of $5.02\,\mathrm{TeV}$ are measured using a data sample…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-11 LHCb collaboration

We make predictions for cross sections of $\rho$ and $\phi$ vector meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral Xe-Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.44$ TeV. Analyzing the momentum transfer distribution of $\rho$ mesons in this process, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-30 V. Guzey , E. Kryshen , M. Zhalov

We discuss central-exclusive production (CEP) of photons via different fusion processes in the reaction $pp \to pp \gamma$ at high energies, available at RHIC and LHC, within the tensor-pomeron model. We consider two types of processes, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-26 Piotr Lebiedowicz , Otto Nachtmann , Antoni Szczurek

We calculate exclusive vector meson photoproduction within the Color Glass Condensate framework in high-energy photon-nucleus scattering probed experimentally in ultra peripheral heavy ion collisions at RHIC and at the LHC. When the free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Heikki Mäntysaari , Farid Salazar , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

The energy-dependent hotspot model is used to predict cross sections for vector-meson diffractive photo-nuclear production off oxygen ($\gamma$O) and neon ($\gamma$Ne) that can be extracted from ultra-peripheral O--O and Ne--Ne collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 J. Cepila , J. G. Contreras , M. Matas , A. Ridzikova

We make predictions for the cross section of coherent $J/\psi$ photoproduction in Pb-Pb and O-O ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC as a function of the $J/\psi$ rapidity $y$ in the framework of collinear factorization and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-23 K. J. Eskola , V. Guzey , T. Löytäinen , H. Paukkunen , C. A. Flett