https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327606008
Measurement of exclusive vector meson photoproduction in pPb collisions with the CMS experiment
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai
600036, India
* e-mail: subash.chandra.behera@cern.ch
Published online: 1 March 2023
The exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons provides a unique opportunity to constrain the gluon distribution function within protons and nuclei. Measuring vector mesons of various masses over a wide range of rapidity and as a function of transverse momentum provides important information on the evolution of the gluon distribution within nuclei. A variety of measurements, including the exclusive J/ψ, ρ, and Υ meson production in pPb (at nucleonnucleon center of mass energies of 5.02 and 8.16 TeV) and PbPb (5.02 TeV) collisions, are presented as a function of squared transverse momentum and the photon-proton center of mass energy. Finally, compilations of these data and previous measurements are compared to various theoretical predictions.
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