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We study coherent and incoherent phi-meson photoproduction from nuclei. The available data are analyzed in terms of single and coupled channel photoproduction. It is found that the data on coherent photoproduction can be well reproduced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Sibirtsev , H. -W. Hammer , U. -G. Meißner , A. W. Thomas

In the present work we explore the inclusive $\psi(2S)$ meson photoproduction from nuclei near the kinematic threshold within the collision model, based on the nuclear spectral function, for incoherent direct photon--nucleon charmonium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-20 E. Ya. Paryev

Hard diffractive electroproduction of longitudinally polarized vector mesons is calculated within the leading $\alpha_s\ln{Q^2\over\Lambda_{QCD}^2}$ approximation of QCD using the leading order parton densities within the nucleon. Novel QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. L. Frankfurt , W. Koepf , M. Strikman

Dark photons serve as a portal to connect the dark and standard model sectors. Here, we propose photon-induced exclusive diffractive processes as a new tool to study the production of dark photons in current and future colliders. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Jan Cepila , Jesús Guillermo Contreras

The subject of this doctoral study is the pseudoscalar meson photoproduction from nuclei. Two types of processes are investigated in this regard: coherent and quasifree processes. In the case of the coherent process, we study it for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Laith Abu-Raddad

We calculate the inclusive and diffractive photoproduction of heavy quarks in proton-proton collisions at Tevatron and LHC energies, where the photon reaches energies larger than those ones accessible at DESY-HERA. The integrated cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado , A. R. Meneses

We show that the QCD color transparency of higher-twist contributions to inclusive hadroproduction cross sections, where baryons are produced directly in a short-distance subprocess, can explain several remarkable features of high-$p_T$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanley J. Brodsky , Anne Sickles

The strong electromagnetic fields carried by relativistic highly charged ions make heavy-ion colliders attractive places to study photonuclear interactions and two-photon interactions. At RHIC, three experiments have studied coherent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-10-21 Spencer R. Klein

The photonuclear production of vector mesons in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions is investigated within the collinear approach using different parameterizations for the nuclear gluon distribution. The integrated cross section and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. L. Ayala Filho , V. P. Goncalves , M. T. Griep

We study the photoproduction of the ^12{_Lambda}B hypernucleus within a fully covariant effective Lagrangian based model, employing Lambda bound state spinors derived from the latest quark-meson coupling model. The kaon production vertex is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 R. Shyam , K. Tsushima , A. W. Thomas

We investigate the rapidity and transverse momentum distributions of the prompt photon production at the CERN LHC energies considering the current perturbative QCD approaches for this scattering process. Namely, we compare the predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 M. V. T. Machado , C. Brenner Mariotto

We compute the differential cross-section for inclusive prompt photon production in deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) of electrons on nuclei at small $x$ in the framework of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory. The leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-08 Kaushik Roy , Raju Venugopalan

In view of possible photoproduction studies in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, we briefly review the present theoretical understanding of photons and hard photoproduction processes at HERA, discussing the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Klasen

Coherent exclusive vector meson electroproduction is a key physics channel at an electron-ion collider. It probes the gluon structure of nuclei over a wide range of $Q^2$, and can be used to measure nuclear shadowing and to search for gluon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-16 Michael Lomnitz , Spencer Klein

The color transparency (CT) of a hadron, propagating with reduced absorption in a nucleus, is a fundamental property of QCD (quantum chromodynamics) reflecting its internal structure and effective size when it is produced at high transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-02 Stanley J. Brodsky , Guy F. de Teramond

Within the Color Glass Condensate framework, we demonstrate that exclusive vector meson production at high energy is sensitive to the geometric deformation of the target nucleus and subnucleon scale fluctuations. Deformation of the nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Heikki Mäntysaari , Farid Salazar , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

The coherent and incoherent $J/\Psi$ photoproduction in $PbPb$ collisions are investigated considering the possible states of nucleon configurations in the nuclear wave function and taking into account of the non - linear corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Victor P. Goncalves , Daniel E. Martins , Celso R. Sena

We study the impact of neutron-skin thickness on $J/\psi$ photoproduction in ultra-peripheral $^{208}\mathrm{Pb}+{}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions. Within the Color Glass Condensate framework, we calculate coherent and incoherent cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Haoyuan Li , Lu-Meng Liu , Jinhui Chen , Yu-Gang Ma , Chunjian Zhang

Using the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the total cross section for the photoproduction of h_c mesons. We include color-octet and color-singlet mechanisms as well as next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sean Fleming , Thomas Mehen

We present the first next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) study of rapidity-differential cross sections of coherent exclusive photoproduction of $J/\psi$ mesons in heavy-ion ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Kari J. Eskola , Christopher A. Flett , Vadim Guzey , Topi Löytäinen , Hannu Paukkunen