Recent progress in some exclusive and semi-exclusive processes in proton-proton collisions

Abstract

We present the main results of our recent analyses of exclusive production of vector charmonia ($J/\psi$ and ${\psi }^{\prime }$) in $k_t$-factorization approach and for $\gamma \gamma$ production of charged dilepton pairs in exclusive and semiinclusive processes in a new approach, similar in spirit to $k_t$-factorization. The results for charmonia are compared with recent results of the LHCb collaboration. We include some helicity flip contributions and quantify the effect of absorption correction. The effect of $c\bar{c}$ wave function is illustrated. We present uncertainties related to $F_2$ structure function which are the main ingredient of the approach. Our results are compared with recent CMS data for dilepton production with lepton isolation cuts imposed.

7 pages, 8 figures, an invited talk presented by A. Szczurek at the ISMD2015, Wildbad Kreuth, Germany, October 4-9, 2015

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