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Using the framework of leading order perturbative QCD along with the CTEQ6L1 gluon distribution of the proton and high-energy HERA data on the $\gamma p \to J/\psi p$ and $\gamma p \to \psi(2S) p$ cross sections along with the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 V. Guzey , M. Zhalov

The current state-of-the-art theoretical estimations lead to cross-sections for $AA \to \gamma \gamma AA$ which are somewhat smaller than the measured ones by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations, which motivates the searching and calculation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Victor P. Goncalves , Antoni Szczurek

This contribution presents an overview of recent measurements of photon-induced processes in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) performed with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Results from Run~2 include detailed studies of exclusive vector…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-11 Anisa Khatun

High-energy photonuclear ($\gamma+A$) scattering in ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions provides a unique probe of nuclear structure. This Letter studies the dependence of $\gamma+A$ jet production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-23 ATLAS Collaboration

We study mutual dissociation of heavy nuclei in peripheral collisions at ultrarelativistic energies. Earlier this process was proposed for beam luminosity monitoring via simultaneous registration of forward and backward neutrons in zero…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 I. A. Pshenichnov , J. P. Bondorf , I. N. Mishustin , A. Ventura , S. Masetti

Relativistic heavy ions are copious sources of virtual photons. The large photon flux gives rise to a substantial photonuclear interaction probability at impact parameters where no hadronic interactions can occur. Multiple photonuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony J. Baltz , Spencer R. Klein , Joakim Nystrand

We propose new cross section ratios in ultra-peripheral A$+$A and $p+$A collisions (UPCs) as a potential experimental signal of saturation physics. We consider the ratio $R_1$ of elastic vector meson photoproduction cross section to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Yuri V. Kovchegov , Huachen Sun , Zhoudunming Tu

One of the most vital topics of today's high-energy nuclear physics is the investigation of the nuclear structure of the collided nuclei. Recent studies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Daniel Kincses

It is theoretically and experimentally argued that there may exist bubble or toroid-shaped configurations in some nucleus systems. Based on the nuclear transport model, it is shown that compared with the collision of normal nuclei, there is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Gao-Chan Yong

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

The CERN LHC is not only the current energy-frontier collider for parton-parton collisions, but has proven a powerful photon collider providing photon-photon ($\gamma\gamma$) collisions at center-of-mass energies and luminosities never…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-30 Nicolas Crépet , David d'Enterria , Hua-Sheng Shao

Two-photon collision in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) provides a unique and powerful platform for probing QCD with linearly polarized quasi-real photons. While photon polarization effects have been recognized in dilepton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu Jia , Wen-Long Sang , Xiaonu Xiong , Jian Zhou , Ya-jin Zhou

We calculate the production of large-pTcharmonium and narrow resonance state (exotic charmonium) in proton-proton, proton-nucleus, and nucleus-nucleus collisions with the semi-coherent two-photon interactions at Relativistic Heavy Ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-21 Gong-Ming Yu , Yue-Chao Yu , Yun-De Li , Jian-Song Wang

Using the QCD color dipole picture to study exclusive vector meson and inclusive jet/open meson photoproduction, we calculate the ratio of elastic meson production to inclusive hadron production cross sections for ultraperipheral heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Joao Vitor C. Lovato , Edgar Huayra , Magno V. T. Machado

One of the major goals of modern nuclear experiments is to study the distributions of gluons inside nuclei at high energy. A key measurement is the coherent exclusive vector meson (VM) production in diffractive electron-nucleus collisions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Maci Kesler , Ashik Ikbal Sheikh , Rongrong Ma , Zhoudunming Tu , Thomas Ullrich , Zhangbu Xu

Theoretical study on hypernuclear systems is important to know the nature of hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interaction as only hypernuclear systems give the scope of knowing these interactions. A hypernucleus, in addition to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 Bhupali Sharma

Pioneering experiments on production of hypernuclei can be performed with nuclotron beams on fixed targets, and at the future NICA facility. The peripheral collisions of relativistic ions are very promising for searching mutli-strange and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-24 A. S. Botvina

We suggest to explore an entirely new method to experimentally and theoretically study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter based on the triple nuclear collisions (TNC). We simulated the TNC using the UrQMD 3.4 model at the beam…

By combining femtoscopic interferometry with an optical deblurring algorithm, we present a novel method to image the source in heavy-ion collisions (HICs) while simultaneously determining the interaction strength between particle pairs. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-28 Junhuai Xu , Zhi Qin , Renjie Zou , Dawei Si , Sheng Xiao , Baiting Tian , Yijie Wang , Zhigang Xiao

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