Photoproduction of heavy quarks and exclusive production of vector mesons in ultraperipheral proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions depend significantly on nuclear gluon distributions. In the present study we investigate quantitatively the extent of the applicability of these processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in constraining the shadowing component of nuclear gluon modifications.
We make predictions for cross sections of $ρ$ and $ϕ$ vector meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral Xe-Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.44$ TeV. Analyzing the momentum transfer distribution of $ρ$ mesons in this process, we explore the feasibility of extracting the nuclear density of $^{129}$Xe, which is needed in searches for dark matter with Xenon-based detectors.
We present calculations for the incoherent photoproduction of J/$ψ$ vector mesons in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions (UPC) in terms of hadronic interactions. This study was carried out using the recently developed Monte Carlo model CRISP extended to include UPCs at LHC energies. A careful study of re-scattering and destruction of the J/$ψ$ particles is presented for PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV. We have also compared our method to AuAu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV measured at RHIC.
We make predictions for the cross sections of coherent photoproduction of $ρ$, $ϕ$, $J/ψ$, $ψ(2S)$, and $Υ(1S)$ mesons in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV in the kinematics of run 2 at the Large Hadron Collider extending the approaches successfully describing the available Pb-Pb UPC data at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV. Our results illustrate the important roles of hadronic fluctuations of the photon and inelastic nuclear shadowing in photoproduction of light vector mesons on nuclei and the large leading twist nuclear gluon shadowing in photoproduction of quarkon…
Nuclear effects in photoproduction of heavy quarks and vector mesons in ultraperipheral PbPb and pPb collisions at the LHC
通过比较$c\bar{c}$和b-b（bar）在PbPb和pPb碰撞中的光生截面，可以得到对核遮蔽效应的敏感性.光生矢量介子对底层胶子的分布更为敏感。本文研究了在sqrt（s_NN）=5 TeV和sqrt（s_NN）=2.76 $ TeV, respectively. The potentials of using these processes for constraining nuclear gluon shadowing are explored. It is found that photoproduction of $ J/J条件下，在大型强子对撞机上进行的超周边pPb和PbPb碰撞中，重夸克光生和矢量介子光生的截面及其与快度的关系。特别是PbPb碰撞中的$ and $对胶子遮蔽表现出很好的敏感性。
We discuss nuclear cross sections for $AA \to AAV$ and $AA \to AAVV$ reactions with one or two vector mesons in the final state. Our analysis is done in the impact parameter space equivalent photon approximation. This approach allows to consider the above processes taking into account distance between colliding nuclei. We consider both ultraperipheral and semi-central collisions. We are a first group which undertook a study of single $J/ψ$ photoproduction for different centrality bins. We show that one can describe new ALICE experimental data by including geometrical effects of collisions in t…
In this letter we complement previous studies on exclusive vector meson photoproduction in hadronic collisions presenting a comprehensive analysis of the $t$ - spectrum measured in exclusive $ρ$ and $J/Ψ$ photoproduction in $pA$ collisions at the LHC. We compute the differential cross sections considering two phenomenological models for the gluon saturation effects and present predictions for $pPb$ and $pCa$ collisions. Moreover, we compare our predictions with the recent preliminary CMS data for the exclusive $ρ$ photoproduction. We demonstrate that the gluon saturation models are able to des…
The photoproduction of bottomonium-like states $Z_{b}(10610)$ and $Z_{b}(10650)$ via $γp$ scattering is studied within an effectiv Lagrangian approach and the vector-meson-dominance model. The Regge model is employed to calculate the photoproduction of $Z_{b}$ states via $t$-channel with $π$ exchange.The numerical results show that the values of the total cross-sections of $Z_{b}(10610)$ and $Z_{b}(10650)$ can reach 0.09 nb and 0.02 nb, respectively, near the center of mass energy of 22 GeV. The experimental measurements and studies on the photoproduction of $Z_{b}$ states near energy region a…
Evidence of Spin-Interference Effects in Exclusive $J/ψ\to e^+e^-$ Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral Heavy-Ion Collisions
Texas A&M University（德克萨斯农工大学）；Czech Technical University in Prague（布拉格捷克理工大学）；AGH University of Krakow（克拉科夫AGH科技大学）；Panjab University（潘杰布大学）；Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre（变能回旋加速器中心）；Kent State University（肯特州立大学）；Brookhaven National Laboratory（布鲁克海文国家实验室）；Fudan University（复旦大学）；Abilene Christian University（阿比林基督教大学）；Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá（塔拉帕卡大学高等研究所）；Shandong University（山东大学）；Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)（印度科学教育与研究机构）；University of California, Riverside（加州大学河滨分校）；Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati（提鲁帕蒂印度科学教育与研究机构）；University of Houston（休斯顿大学）；University of Jammu（詹穆大学）；State University of New York, Stony Brook（纽约州立大学石溪分校）
We present the first NLO pQCD study of coherent exclusive $J/ψ$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) at the LHC. Taking the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in their forward limit, as parton distribution functions (PDFs), we quantify the NLO contributions in the rapidity-differential cross section, show that the real part of the amplitude must not be neglected, study the gluon and quark contributions, chart the scale-choice and PDF uncertainties, and compare the NLO results with LHC and HERA data. We show that the scale dependence is significant but a scale cho…
The QCD Pomeron in Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions: IV. Photonuclear Production of Vector Mesons
在QCD色偶极图中研究了超周边重离子碰撞中矢量介子的光核产生，着重讨论了饱和模型。计算了A + A --> V + A + A（V = ρ，ω，phi，J/Psi）过程的积分截面和快度分布，并给出了RHIC和LHC能量下轻核和重核散射的理论估计。与最近的STAR数据的ρ介子相干产生的比较也被提出。此外，我们还计算了RHIC、Tevatron和LHC能区质子-质子碰撞中矢量介子的光生。
The differential cross section of coherent photo-production of heavy quarkonia on nuclear targets is calculated within the QCD color dipole formalism. The higher-twist nuclear shadowing corresponding to the $\bar QQ$ Fock component of the photon, is calculated including the correlation between dipole orientation $\vec r$ and impact parameter of a collision $\vec b$, which is related to the transverse momentum transfer via Fourier transform. We also included the leading twist gluon shadowing corresponding to higher Fock components of the photon containing gluons, which have specifically short c…
Using QCD calculations of the cross section of inclusive dijet photoproduction in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions in the LHC kinematics as pseudo-data, we study the effect of including these data using the Bayesian reweighting technique on nCTEQ15, nCTEQ15np, and EPPS16 nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs). We find that, depending on the assumed error of the pseudo-data, it leads to a significant reduction of the nPDF uncertainties at small values of the momentum fraction $x_A$. Taking the error to be 5\%, the uncertainty of nCTEQ15 and nCTEQ15np nPDFs reduces approximately by a fact…
Inclusive heavy meson photoproduction in $pPb$ and $PbPb$ collisions
Federal University of Pelotas（佩洛塔斯联邦大学）；The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)（波兰科学院亨利克·涅沃德尼茨基核物理研究所）
We study the exclusive photoproduction of a photon-meson pair with a large invariant mass, working in the QCD factorisation framework. Explicitly, we consider a $ ρ$-meson or a charged $ π$ in the final state. This process gives access to chiral-even GPDs as well as chiral-odd GPDs. We focus here on the chiral-even sector. The computation is performed at leading order and leading twist. We discuss the prospects of measuring them in various experiments such as JLab 12-GeV, COMPASS, future EIC and LHC (in ultraperipheral collisions). In particular, the high centre of mass energies available at c…
Using the data on coherent $J/ψ$ photoproduction in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) obtained in Runs 1 and 2 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we determined with a good accuracy the nuclear suppression factor of $S_{Pb}(x)$ in a wide range of the momentum fraction $x$, $10^{-5} \leq x \leq 0.04$. In the small-$x$ region $x < 10^{-3}$, our $χ^2$ fit favors a flat form of $S_{Pb}(x) \approx 0.6$ with approximately a 5% accuracy for $x=6 \times 10^{-4} - 10^{-3} $ and a 25% error at $x=10^{-4}$. At the same time, uncertainties of the fit do not exclude a slow decrease of $S_{Pb}(x)$ in …
Heavy quarkonium production in ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions (UPC) is described within the QCD dipole formalism. Realistic quarkonium wave functions in the $Q\bar Q$ rest frame are calculated by solving the Schrödinger equation with a subsequent Lorentz boost to high energy. We rely on several realistic $Q\bar Q$ potentials, which allow to describe well the quarkonium masses and decay widths, as well as data on diffractive electroproduction of quarkonia on protons. Nuclear effects are calculated with the phenomenological dipole cross sections fitted to DIS data. The higher twist quark sh…
Gluon density and its distributions inside nuclei and the parton modification of bounded nucleons inside a nucleus, are some of the main standing problems in nuclear and particle physics. In recent years, ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC) of heavy ions have provided a new way of probing the gluon density, which is based on coherent diffractive vector-meson productions, e.g., $J/ψ$ meson. For heavy ions, e.g., Pb, the gluon density is found to be significantly suppressed through the UPC $J/ψ$ measurement, suggesting a strong gluon shadowing effect in heavy nuclei. In this analysis, we aim to lo…
Revisiting the role of saturation in diffractive vector meson production
University of Jyväskylä（于韦斯屈莱大学）；Helsinki Institute of Physics（赫尔辛基物理研究所）；Brookhaven National Laboratory（布鲁克海文国家实验室）；Wayne State University（韦恩州立大学）；Central China Normal University（华中师范大学）
