Energy dependence of coherent photonuclear production of J/ψ mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at root sNN = 5.02 TeV

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21340%2F23%3A00369516" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21340/23:00369516 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)119" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)119</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)119" target="_blank" >10.1007/JHEP10(2023)119</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Energy dependence of coherent photonuclear production of J/ψ mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at root sNN = 5.02 TeV

Original language description

The cross section for coherent photonuclear production of J/ψ is presented as a function of the electromagnetic dissociation (EMD) of Pb. The measurement is performed with the ALICE detector in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of = 5.02 TeV. Cross sections are presented in five different J/ψ rapidity ranges within |y| < 4, with the J/ψ reconstructed via its dilepton decay channels. In some events the J/ψ is not accompanied by EMD, while other events do produce neutrons from EMD at beam rapidities either in one or the other beam direction, or in both. The cross sections in a given rapidity range and for different configurations of neutrons from EMD allow for the extraction of the energy dependence of this process in the range 17 < Wγ Pb,n < 920 GeV, where Wγ Pb,n is the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon of the γPb system. This range corresponds to a Bjorken-x interval spanning about three orders of magnitude: 1.1 x 10-5 < x < 3.3 x 10-2. In addition to the ultra-peripheral and photonuclear cross sections, the nuclear suppression factor is obtained. These measurements point to a strong depletion of the gluon distribution in Pb nuclei over a broad, previously unexplored, energy range. These results, together with previous ALICE measurements, provide unprecedented information to probe quantum chromodynamics at high energies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10303 - Particles and field physics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of High Energy Physics

ISSN

1029-8479

e-ISSN

1029-8479

Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

40

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001093240400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85175831207