First measurement of the |t|-dependence of coherent J/ψ photonuclear production

ALICE Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136280

First measurement of the |t|-dependence of coherent J/ψ photonuclear production

ALICE Collaboration

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Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
Czech Academy of Sciences
Goethe University Frankfurt
Lund University
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Aligarh Muslim University
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Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Central China Normal University
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
COMSATS University Islamabad
University of Houston
University of Bergen
St. Petersburg State University
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Institute for Subatomic Physics
University of Münster
Heidelberg University
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nantes Université
University of Oslo
Yale University
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Abstract

The first measurement of the cross section for coherent J/ψ photoproduction as a function of |t|, the square of the momentum transferred between the incoming and outgoing target nucleus, is presented. The data were measured with the ALICE detector in ultra-peripheral Pb–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair s_NN=5.02TeV with the J/ψ produced in the central rapidity region |y|<0.8, which corresponds to the small Bjorken-x range (0.3−1.4)×10⁻³. The measured |t|-dependence is not described by computations based only on the Pb nuclear form factor, while the photonuclear cross section is better reproduced by models including shadowing according to the leading-twist approximation, or gluon-saturation effects from the impact-parameter dependent Balitsky–Kovchegov equation. These new results are therefore a valid tool to constrain the relevant model parameters and to investigate the transverse gluonic structure at very low Bjorken-x.

Original language	English
Article number	136280
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	817
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136280
State	Published - 2021.06.10

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First measurement of the |t|-dependence of coherent J/ψ photonuclear production

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