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Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) have been a significant source of study at RHIC and the LHC. In these collisions, the two colliding nuclei interact electromagnetically, via two-photon or photonuclear interactions, but not hadronically;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-18 Spencer R. Klein , Joakim Nystrand , Janet Seger , Yuri Gorbunov , Joey Butterworth

We present a detailed phenomenological study of photoproduction of two hadrons, both with high transverse momentum, in longitudinally polarized lepton-nucleon collisions. We consistently include ``direct'' and ``resolved'' photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 C. Hendlmeier , M. Stratmann , A. Schafer

The exclusive production of one $\mu^+\mu^-$ pair in collisions of two ultra-relativistic nuclei is considered. We present a simple method for the calculation of the Born cross section for this process based on an improved equivalent photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Hencken , E. A. Kuraev , V. Serbo

We study the exclusive diffractive $c \bar c$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral $pA$ collisions. The formalism makes use of off-diagonal generalizations of the unintegrated gluon distribution, the so-called generalized transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-25 Barbara Linek , Agnieszka Łuszczak , Marta Łuszczak , Roman Pasechnik , Wolfgang Schäfer , Antoni Szczurek

Perturbative and non-perturbative terms of the cross sections of ultraperipheral production of lepton pairs in ion collisions are taken into account. It is shown that production of low-mass $e^+e^-$ pairs is strongly enhanced (compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 I. M. Dremin

By using the theoretical approaches describing well the available data on $t$-integrated coherent photoproduction of light and heavy vector mesons in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Run 1, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-07 V. Guzey , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

The cross section for exclusive $\pi^+\pi^-$ and $\pi^0\pi^0$ meson pairs production in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is calculated at the energy available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, i.e., $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=3.5$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-31 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

The cross-sections of coherent \jpsi and \psitwos production in ultra-peripheral PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of $5.02\,\mathrm{TeV}$ are measured using a data sample collected in 2018 at $\lhcb$, and the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-22 Xiaolin Wang

Measurements of coherent charmonium production cross sections together with their ratio in ultra-peripheral PbPb collisions are studied at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of $5.02\,\mathrm{TeV}$, the differential cross-sections are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-03 Xiaolin Wang

We present the first NLO pQCD study of coherent exclusive $J/\psi$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) at the LHC. Taking the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in their forward limit, as parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 K. J. Eskola , C. A. Flett , V. Guzey , T. Löytäinen , H. Paukkunen

The strong electromagnetic fields associated with high energy protons and nuclei may lead to exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. This paper will discuss the expected cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joakim Nystrand

We study diffractive vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of heavy nuclei, utilizing a theoretical framework based on the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. We focus on Au+Au, U+U, Ru+Ru, Zr+Zr, and Pb+Pb…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-25 Heikki Mäntysaari , Farid Salazar , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

We derive the first terms in the amplitude of lepton pair production in the Coulomb fields of two relativistic heavy ions. Using the Sudakov technique, which very simplify the calculations in momentum space for the processes at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 E. Bartos , S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev , N. N. Nikolaev

The intense photon fluxes of relativistic nuclei provide a possibility to study photonuclear and two-photon interactions in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC) where the nuclei do not overlap and no strong nuclear interactions occur. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Pozdniakov

Cross section of the processes of neutral pion production as well as pairs of charged fermions and bosons in peripherical interaction of leptons, photons are calculated in main logarithmical approximation. We investigate the phase volumes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Ahmadov , M. V. Galynskii , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , E. A. Kuraev , M. G. Shatnev

By using a Regge-pole model for vector meson production (VMP), successfully describing the HERA data, we analyse the correlation between VMP cross sections in photon-induced reactions at HERA and those in ultra-peripheral collisions at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Roberto Fiore , Laszlo Jenkovszky , Vladyslav Libov , Magno Machado

Measurements of quarkonia production in peripheral and ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions are sensitive to photon-photon and photon-nucleus interactions, the partonic structure of nuclei, and the mechanisms of vector-meson production. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-28 Krista Smith

We study the azimuthal angular decorrelation of the dijet production via photon fusion in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions. The impact parameter dependent cross section of quark-antiquark pairs production is derived using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-03 Cheng Zhang , Qian-Shun Dai , Ding Yu Shao

Exclusive dimuon production in ultraperipheral collisions (UPC), resulting from photon-photon interactions in the strong electromagnetic fields of colliding high-energy lead nuclei, $\mathrm{PbPb}(\gamma\gamma) \rightarrow \mu^+\mu^-…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-23 ATLAS Collaboration

Exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons in the perturbative two-gluon exchange formalism depends significantly on nucleon and nuclear gluon distributions. In the present study we calculate total cross sections and rapidity distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Adeola Adeluyi , Trang Nguyen