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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

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

The exclusive vector meson production in electron-ion collisions for the energies of the future colliders is investigated. We present predictions for the coherent and incoherent $\phi$ and $J/\psi$ production in $eAu$ collisions considering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Victor P. Goncalves , Daniel E. Martins , Celso R. Sena

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

In this paper, we present an analysis of coincident particle production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. In particular, we present the first detailed and differential predictions for coincident $\rho^0$ meson production in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-24 L. A. Harland-Lang

The production of charged kaon pairs in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions can proceed via photoproduction (gamma-Pomeron interaction) or via photon-photon fusion. An important contribution to this process arises from the decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Nikhil Krishna , Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

The contribution of the QCD Pomeron to the process AA -> AA J/Psi J/Psi is discussed. We focus on the photon-photon collision, with the quasi-real photon coming from the Weizsacker - Williams spectrum of the nuclei. We calculate the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado

We present predictions for the J/psi and rho meson production in the heavy ion ultraperipheral collisions (UPC) for the current energy 2.76 TeV at the LHC. Both total cross sections and cross sections with the neutron emission from one or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Rebyakova , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

I review work on diffractive vector meson production in photon-proton collisions at high energy and large momentum transfer, accompanied by proton dissociation and a large rapidity gap. This process provides a test of the high energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 R. Enberg

We have investigated the single and double diffractive production of dileptons and photons in ultra-peripheral collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Utilizing advanced theoretical models that integrate quantum electrodynamics (QED)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Gongming Yu , Rabia Hameed , Liyuan Hu , Qiang Hu

We argue that study of the cross section of coherent photo(electro) production of vector mesons off nuclear targets provides an effective method to probe the leading twist hard QCD regimes of color transparency and perturbative color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. Frankfurt , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

Ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) provide a distinct environment for high-energy QCD research, focusing on the production of vector mesons. This proceeding details recent advancements in the Sar$t$re Monte Carlo event generator,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Vaidehi Nattoja , Tobias Toll

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

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

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of heavy ions can be used as a clean environment to study two-photon induced interactions such as dilepton pair photoproduction. Recently, precise data on lepton pair production in UPCs were obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Nazar Burmasov , Evgeny Kryshen , Paul Buehler , Roman Lavicka

In this work we analyse the theoretical uncertainties on the predictions for the photoproduction of light vector mesons in coherent pp, pA and AA collisions at the LHC energies using the color dipole approach. In particular, we present our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 G. Sampaio dos Santos , M. V. T. Machado

We calculated the production of the Higgs boson (H) by two-photon interaction with the equivalent photon approximation in nucleus-nucleus collision, proton-nucleus collision, and proton-proton collision. The numerical results show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-05 Gongming Yu , Wenlong Sun

The double meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ions collisions is addressed, focusing on the particular case of rho-J/Psi from two-photon reactions. The cross section at photon level is obtained using distinct parameterizations for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 V. P. Goncalves , M. V. T. Machado

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

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) involving heavy ions and protons are the energy frontier for photon-mediated interactions. UPC photons can be used for many purposes, including probing low-$x$ gluons via photoproduction of dijets and…