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The production of a $D^+ D^-$ pair by photon - photon interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is investigated considering ultraperipheral proton - proton ($pp$), proton - lead ($pPb$) and lead - lead ($PbPb$) collisions. Assuming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Ya-Ping Xie , Victor P. Goncalves

The cross sections for the production of two-pions in ultraperipheral ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, calculated in the impact parameter Equivalent Photon Approximation (EPA), are presented. Differential distributions in impact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Antoni Szczurek

Vector meson production in ultra-peripheral pA and AA collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are very sensitive to Parton Distribution Functions (PDF) as well as to their leading-order, next-to-leading-order, and medium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-08 J. Thomas , C. A. Bertulani , N. Brady , D. B. Clark , E. Godat , F. Olness

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

We calculate the production of $\chi_{c}$ and $\eta_{c}$ by the semi-coherent and coherent two-photon interaction in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Gongming Yu , Yanbing Cai , Quangui Gao , Qiang Hu

Based on accurate calculations of the flux of equivalent photons of the proton and heavy nuclei and the pQCD framework for the gluon distribution in the proton and nuclei, we analyze the rapidity and momentum transfer distributions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 V. Guzey , M. Zhalov

We study dilepton, proton-antiproton and diphoton production in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 and 5.5 TeV. The nuclear calculations are based on equivalent photon approximation in the impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-01 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

The $\gamma\gamma\to\pi\pi$ reactions are discussed. To describe those processes, we include dipion continuum, resonances, high-energy pion-pion rescatterings, $\rho$ meson exchange and pQCD Brodsky-Lepage mechanisms. The cross section for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

We present a theoretical investigation of photonuclear tomography as a novel technique for probing the internal structure of nuclei. In this approach, ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) serve as a source of intense fluxes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 J. D. Baker , C. A. Bertulani , Victor P. Goncalves

Ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions, in which the two nuclei pass close to each other, but at an impact parameter greater than the sum of their radii, provide information about the initial state of nuclei. In particular, heavy vector meson…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 E. L. Kryshen

We apply the Sudakov technique to description of the multiple production of lepton pairs in peripheral collisions of ultrarelativistic heavy ions. For heavy ions with $Z_1\alpha\sim Z_2\alpha\ll 1$ one needs a careful treatment of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Bartos , S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev , N. N. Nikolaev

The coherent photons induced by relativistic heavy ions are highly linearly polarized, in close analogy to the linear polarization of gluons in a large nucleus. We proposed to measure the photon polarization through azimuthal asymmetries in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Ya-jin Zhou

Ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) of protons and nuclei are important for the study of the photoproduction of vector mesons and exotic states. The photoproduction of vector mesons in the pentaquark resonance channel in $p\mbox{-}Au$ UPCs at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-30 Ya-Ping Xie , Xiao-Yun Wang , Xurong Chen

In this work, we present a next-to-leading-order (NLO) study of $J/\psi + \gamma$ production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 14$ TeV. The calculation is performed within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 Meng-Kun Jia , Xiao-Bo Jin , Kui-Yong Liu , Guang-Zhi Xu

We discuss diphoton semi(exclusive) production in ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions at energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV (LHC) and in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s_{pp}}$ = 7 TeV (LHC) and $\sqrt{s_{pp}}$ = 100 TeV (FCC). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-16 Antoni Szczurek , Mariola Klusek-Gawenda

We calculate the cross sections of electromagnetic productions of muon and tauon pair productions from the ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Since the Compton wavelengths of muon and tauon are comparable to the radius of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-31 M. Y. Sengul , M. C. Guclu , O. Mercan , N. G. Karakus

We show that exclusive production of a pair of high transverse momentum photons in pion-nucleon collisions can be systematically studied in QCD factorization approach if the photon's transverse momentum $q_T$ with respect to the colliding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Jian-Wei Qiu , Zhite Yu

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 2016-06-30 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Piotr Lebiedowicz , Antoni Szczurek

The Lorentz-contracted electromagnetic fields of the ions in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions generate intense quasi-real photon fluxes. These lead to photon-induced interactions that are observed in ultra-peripheral collisions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-11 ATLAS Collaboration

Photoproduction of vector mesons are computed in dipole model in proton-proton ultraperipheral collisions(UPCs) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The dipole model framework is employed in the calculations of vector mesons production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-30 Ya-Ping Xie , Xurong Chen