Double D meson production in ultraperipheral $pp$, $pPb$ and $PbPb$ collisions

Ya-Ping Xie, Victor P. Goncalves

The production of a $D^{+}{D}^{-}$ pair by photon - photon interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is investigated considering ultraperipheral proton - proton ($pp$), proton - l…