Nuclear effects in photoproduction of heavy quarks and vector mesons in ultraperipheral PbPb and pPb collisions at the LHC

Abstract

The comparison of photoproduction cross sections for $c\bar{c}$ and b-b(bar) in PbPb and pPb collisions can give sensitivity to nuclear shadowing effects. The photoproduction of vector mesons is even more sensitive to the underlying gluon distributions. In this study we present the cross sections and rapidity dependence of the photoproduction of heavy quarks and exclusive production of vector mesons in ultraperipheral pPb and PbPb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at sqrt(s_NN)=5 TeV and sqrt(s_NN)=2.76$TeV,respectively.Thepotentialsofusingtheseprocessesforconstrainingnucleargluonshadowingareexplored.Itisfoundthatphotoproductionof$J/ψ$and$Υ$ in PbPb collisions in particular exhibit very good sensitivity to gluon shadowing.

arXiv comment4 pages, 4 figures

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