Email this article Gluon densities at small x from photoproduction of ψ(2S) mesons in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC
- Authors: Guzey V.A.1, Zhalov M.B.1
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Affiliations:
- Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
- Issue: Vol 80, No 8 (2016)
- Pages: 970-976
- Section: Proceedings of the LXV International Conference “Nucleus 2015. New Horizons in Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Femto- and Nanotechnologies” (LXV International Meeting on Nuclear Spectroscopy and Nuclear Structure) (St. Petersburg, June–July 201
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1062-8738/article/view/184773
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873816080190
- ID: 184773
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Abstract
In the framework of the leading order of perturbative QCD, we study exclusive photoproduction of ψ(2S) mesons in ultraperipheral proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. We calculate the charmonium rapidity distributions and show that the analysis of the LHC experimental data allows one to significantly reduce uncertainties in the behavior of the gluon densities of the proton and nuclei at small x.
About the authors
V. A. Guzey
Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
Author for correspondence.
Email: vguzey@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, 188300
M. B. Zhalov
Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
Email: vguzey@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, 188300
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