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most citedExclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD

47 citations · 195 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

hep-ph2026

Bound-state production in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

Alice Colpani Serri, Chris A. Flett, Jean-Philippe Lansberg +3

I present the first implementation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO for bound-state production, including quarkonium, leptonium, and B(c) mesons within Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromo-Dynamics…

hep-ph2026

Observables in exclusive heavy quarkonium electroproduction at NLO and prospects for the EIC

Chris A. Flett

We perform various phenomenological studies of exclusive heavy-quarkonium electroproduction in collisions that are relevant for both the existing measurements from HERA and th…

hep-ph2026

Low- parton densities accounting for absorptive effects and exclusive and data from the LHC

V. Bertone, C. A. Flett, A. D. Martin +1

Based on the combined Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS) data from HERA and the exclusive and cross sections measured at the LHC, we investigate the role of absorptive corre…

hep-ph2025

Phenomenological studies of exclusive heavy-quarkonium electroproduction at NLO

Chris A. Flett

Using the next-to-leading order (NLO) coefficient functions for exclusive electroproduction of heavy vector mesons derived in our previous work, we perform various phenomenological…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Exclusive vector-quarkonium photoproduction at NLO in alpha_s in collinear factorisation with evolution of the generalised parton distributions and high-energy resummation

C. A. Flett, J. P. Lansberg, S. Nabeebaccus +3

We perform the first complete one-loop study of exclusive photoproduction of vector quarkonia off protons in Collinear Factorisation (CF) including the scale evolution of the Gener…

hep-ph2024

A method to include exclusive heavy vector-meson production data at small in global parton analyses

C. A. Flett, A. D. Martin, M. G. Ryskin +1

We propose a method which allows the inclusion of exclusive heavy vector-meson production data at low in future global parton analyses. As an example we perform a study within…

hep-ex2024

QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions -- 4th edition

Javira Altmann, Carlota Andres, Anton Andronic +57

This paper is a write-up of the ideas that were presented, developed and discussed at the fourth International Workshop on QCD Challenges from pp to AA, which took place in Februar…

hep-ph2023

Exclusive quarkonium photoproduction in + UPCs at the LHC in NLO pQCD

Kari J. Eskola, Christopher A. Flett, Vadim Guzey +2

We present the first study of coherent exclusive quarkonium (, ) photoproduction in ultraperipheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPCs) at the LHC in the framework of colline…

hep-ph2023

Exclusive heavy vector meson photoproduction on nuclei in NLO perturbative QCD

K. J. Eskola, V. Guzey, T. Löytäinen +2

We make predictions for the cross section of coherent photoproduction in Pb-Pb and O-O ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC as a function of the rapidity in…

hep-ph2022★ 25 cited

Next-to-leading order perturbative QCD predictions for exclusive photoproduction in oxygen-oxygen and lead-lead collisions at the LHC

Kari J. Eskola, Christopher A. Flett, Vadim Guzey +2

We present predictions for the cross sections of coherent photoproduction in lead-lead and oxygen-oxygen ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) as a function of the rapidity…

hep-ph2022

Implications of exclusive photoproduction in a tamed collinear factorisation approach to NLO

Chris A. Flett, Alan D. Martin, Misha G. Ryskin +1

We discuss exclusive photoproduction, initially in conventional collinear factorisation at NLO and then subsequently in a refined approach with a programme of low resumma…

hep-ph2022

Exclusive production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions to NLO pQCD

K. J. Eskola, C. A. Flett, V. Guzey +2

We present the first NLO pQCD study of coherent exclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UPCs) at the LHC. Taking the generalized parton distributio…

hep-ph2022

Towards the phenomenological implications of the Physical Scheme in PDF fits

Valerio Bertone, Chris A. Flett, Alan D. Martin +1

We describe the impact on PDF extractions of the 'Physical Scheme', a heavy-quark mass scheme that accounts for the effects of intrinsic heavy-quarks and provides a way to smoothly…

hep-ph2022

Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for exclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC

Kari J. Eskola, Chris A. Flett, Vadim Guzey +2

We present the first study of rapidity-differential cross sections of coherent exclusive photoproduction in heavy-ion ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC, $\text{d}σ…

hep-ph2022

Exclusive and production in high energy and Pb collisions

Chris A. Flett, Stephen P. Jones, Alan D. Martin +2

We present a formalism for determining the cross section for exclusive heavy vector meson production () as a function of rapidity, in both high energy proton-proton and pro…

hep-ph2022★ 47 cited

Exclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD

Kari J. Eskola, Christopher A. Flett, Vadim Guzey +2

We present the first next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) study of rapidity-differential cross sections of coherent exclusive photoproduction of mesons in heav…

hep-ph2021

Predictions of exclusive photoproduction at the LHC and future colliders

Chris A. Flett, Stephen P. Jones, Alan D. Martin +2

The cross section for exclusive ultraperipheral photoproduction at present and future colliders is determined using the low gluon PDF extracted from an analysis of exclusiv…

hep-ph2021★ 19 cited

Exclusive heavy vector meson electroproduction to NLO in collinear factorisation

Chris A. Flett, John A. Gracey, Stephen P. Jones +1

We compute the exclusive electroproduction, , of heavy quarkonia to NLO in the collinear factorisation scheme, which has been formally proven for this pr…

hep-ph2020★ 18 cited

Prospects for quarkonium studies at the high-luminosity LHC

Emilien Chapon, David d'Enterria, Bertrand Ducloue +48

Prospects for quarkonium-production studies accessible during the upcoming high-luminosity phases of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operation after 2021 are reviewed. Current exper…

hep-ph2020★ 36 cited

Very low gluon density determined by LHCb exclusive data

Chris A. Flett, Alan D. Martin, Misha G. Ryskin +1

The low behaviour of the gluon density at scale GeV is determined using exclusive production data from HERA and LHCb within the framework of col…

hep-ph2019★ 1 cited

Exclusive production of heavy quarkonia as a probe of the low x and low scale gluon PDF

C. A. Flett, S. P. Jones, A. D. Martin +2

We discuss the exclusive photoproduction process, as measured recently at LHCb, as a means of constraining and ultimately determining the low and low gluon PDF. The s…

hep-ph2019★ 46 cited

How to include exclusive production data in global PDF analyses

Chris A. Flett, Stephen P. Jones, Alan D. Martin +2

We compare the cross section for exclusive photoproduction calculated at NLO in the collinear factorization approach with HERA and LHCb data. Using the optimum scale formalis…

hep-ph2019★ 2 cited

Towards a determination of the low gluon via exclusive production

Chris A. Flett, Stephen P. Jones, Alan D. Martin +2

We discuss how the stability of the theoretical prediction for exclusive photoproduction has been improved through a systematic taming of the known coe…