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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 discuss diphoton semi(exclusive) production in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 5.5 TeV (LHC). The nuclear calculations are based on equivalent photon approximation in the impact parameter space. The cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Antoni Szczurek , Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Piotr Lebiedowicz , Wolfgang Schäfer

We present a detailed investigation of the azimuthal asymmetries and acoplanarity in lepton pair production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs). These observables provide a unique opportunity to test the SCET resummation formalism, given…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Ding Yu Shao , Cheng Zhang , Jian Zhou , Ya Jin Zhou

The strong electromagnetic fields present in ultra-peripheral collisions of heavy-ions offer a possibility to study two-photon and photonuclear collisions complementary to similar studies with lepton beams but over an increased photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Joakim Nystrand

Rapidity distributions of vector mesons are computed in dipole model proton-lead ultraperipheral collisions(UPCs) at the CERN Larger Hadron Collider(LHC). The dipole model framework is implemented in the calculations of cross sections in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-17 Ya-Ping Xie , Xurong Chen

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC) occur when the interacting nuclei or protons have an impact parameter larger than the sum of their radii. They are mediated by virtual photon exchange. The photoproduction of heavy vector mesons is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-09-25 Simone Ragoni

We discuss diphoton semi(exclusive) production in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions at energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 5.5 TeV (LHC). The nuclear calculations are based on equivalent photon approximation in the impact parameter space. The cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-28 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of ions allow us to study photonuclear and two-photon interactions at energies above those available at fixed target accelerators. For heavy ions, the couplings are large enough so that multi-photon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-02-25 Spencer R. Klein

The exclusive $\Upsilon$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC energies is being investigated using pQCD framework which constrain the gluon distribution in the proton and nuclei at low $x$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-17 Dipanwita Dutta , Ruchi Chudasama

The inclusive production of pseudoscalar heavy quarkoniua ($\eta_c,~\eta_b$ and $B_c$) via photon-photon fusion in heavy ion ultraperipheral collision (UPC) are calculated to QCD next-to-leading order in the framework of non-relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Jun Jiang , Shi-Yuan Li , Xiao Liang , Yan-Rui Liu , Cong-Feng Qiao , Zong-Guo Si , Hao Yang

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) involving relativistic heavy ions are a unique laboratory to study quantum correlations. The intense electromagnetic fields generate high rates of photonuclear interactions, including events involving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Spencer R. Klein

We investigate proton-antiproton ($p\bar{p}$) pair production via photon-photon fusion in the ultra-peripheral collisions at RHIC, employing a joint impact parameter and transverse momentum dependent formalism. We consider proton exchange,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Cheng Zhang , Li-Mao Zhang , Ding Yu Shao

Relativistic heavy ions are sources of strong electromagnetic fields which produce photon-induced interactions. These interactions are usually studied in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of the relativistic heavy ions. The UPCs can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-11 David Tlusty

In this contribution, we study the inclusive and diffractive $\eta_{c}$ photoproduction in $pp$ and $pPb$ ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC's) at the LHC Run 2 energies. The quarkonium production is studied using nonrelativistic quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-09 V. P. Goncalves , B. D. Moreira

In this study, we investigate photon-photon scattering in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions (UPCs). We start by deriving an effective Lagrangian from first principles and then apply factorization techniques from Soft-Collinear effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Yu-Cheng Hui

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs), studied using the ALICE detector, allow us to investigate the low-$x$ behavior of the gluon distribution of the colliding particles. Two new measurements of coherent J/$\psi$ photoproduction cross section…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-07-29 T. Herman

This paper investigates the transverse momentum broadening effect for electromagnetic production of dileptons in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions accompanied by nuclear dissociation. The electromagnetic dissociation probability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-15 James Daniel Brandenburg , Wei Li , Lijuan Ruan , Zebo Tang , Zhangbu Xu , Shuai Yang , Wangmei Zha

The production of mesons in ultra-peripheral collisions of relativistic heavy ions is re-analyzed using a projection technique to calculate the amplitudes for the appropriate Feynman diagrams. The virtuality of the exchanged photons is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 C. A. Bertulani , F. Navarra

We present a systematic investigation of lepton pair production through photon-photon fusion processes in heavy-ion collisions. It is demonstrated that the dilepton production at a given impact parameter ($b_\perp$) with a fixed transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Yu Shi , Lin Chen , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao

We calculate the cross section of inclusive dijet photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of heavy ions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider using next-to-leading order perturbative QCD and demonstrate that it provides a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-01 V. Guzey , M. Klasen