Abstract:We systematically study exclusive diffractive (photo) production of vector mesons (J/ψ, ψ(2s), φ and ρ) off protons in high-energy collisions and investigate whether the production is a sensitive probe of gluon saturation. We confront saturation-based results for diffractive ψ(2s) and ρ production at HERA and J/ψ photoproduction with all available data including recent ones from HERA, ALICE and LHCb, finding good agreement. In particular, we show that the t-distribution of differential cross sections of photop… Show more
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