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First study of the initial gluonic fluctuations using UPCs with ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2024-01-25 v1

Abstract

Incoherent and dissociative J/ψ\psi photoproduction is sensitive to fluctuations of the gluonic structure of the target. Thus, the measurement of J/ψ\psi photoproduction of the colliding hadron sheds light on the initial state of QCD and provides important constraints on the initial conditions used in hydrodynamical models of heavy-ion collisions. The first measurement of the transverse momentum dependence of both coherent and incoherent J/ψ\psi photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions at midrapidity is presented. These new results provide, for the first time, a clear indication of subnucleonic fluctuations of the lead target. We also present the new measurement of dissociative J/ψ\psi photoproduction cross section as a function of energy, in p-Pb collisions at forward rapidity. Dissociative results do not show any indication of saturation and agree with previous data.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13340,
  title  = {First study of the initial gluonic fluctuations using UPCs with ALICE},
  author = {Adam Tomasz Matyja},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13340},
  year   = {2024}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the QM2023 Conference

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