Central exclusive photoproduction at the LHC

Abstract

Protons and antiprotons at collider energies are a source of high energy Weizsaecker--Williams photons. This opens up a possibility to study at the LHC exclusive photoproduction of heavy vector mesons at energies much larger than possible at the HERA accelerator. We present selected results of our detailed studies of various distributions for the production of heavy quarkonia (e.g. rapidity, transverse momenta, azimuthal angles). We give predictions for LHC energies. Our calculations are based on modelling the photoproduction amplitudes in a k_\perp-factorisation approach which is checked against HERA data. We also discuss the exclusive photoproduction of Z^0 bosons.

4+ pages, a talk given by W.S. at The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, 16-22 July 2009 Krakow, Poland

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