Vector meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions

Gonçalves, V. P.; Machado, M. V. T.

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“…The PHENIX collaboration has measured exclusive J/ψ production in Au+Au collisions at √ s N N = 200 GeV (Ref. [711]) and also finds agreement with theoretical predictions [712][713][714][715][716][717][718][719]. See Sect.…”

Section: Exclusive Production Of Charmoniamentioning

confidence: 77%

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

Brambilla¹,

Eidelman²,

Heltsley³

et al. 2011

Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei

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A golden age for heavy quarkonium physics dawned a decade ago, initiated by the confluence of exciting advances in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and an explosion of related experimental activity. The early years of this period were chronicled in the Quarkonium Working Group (QWG) CERN Yellow Report (YR) in 2004, which presented a comprehensive review of the status of the field at that time and provided specific recommendations for further progress. However, the broad spectrum of subsequent breakthroughs, surprises, and continuing puzzles could only be partially anticipated. Since the release of the YR, the BESII program concluded only to give birth to BESIII; the B-factories and CLEO-c flourished; quarkonium production and polarization measurements at HERA and the Tevatron matured; and heavy-ion collisions at RHIC have opened a window on the deconfinement regime. All these experiments leave legacies of quality, precision, and unsolved mysteries for quarkonium physics, and therefore beg for continuing investigations at BESIII, the LHC, RHIC, FAIR, the Super Flavor and/or Tau-Charm factories, JLab, the ILC, and beyond. The list of newly-found conventional states expanded to include hc(1P ), χc2(2P ), B + c , and η b (1S). In addition, the unexpected and still-fascinating X(3872) has been joined by * Editors † Section coordinators ‡ Corresponding author: bkh2@cornell.edu more than a dozen other charmonium-and bottomonium-like "XY Z" states that appear to lie outside the quark model. Many of these still need experimental confirmation. The plethora of new states unleashed a flood of theoretical investigations into new forms of matter such as quark-gluon hybrids, mesonic molecules, and tetraquarks. Measurements of the spectroscopy, decays, production, and in-medium behavior of cc, bb, and bc bound states have been shown to validate some theoretical approaches to QCD and highlight lack of quantitative success for others. Lattice QCD has grown from a tool with computational possibilities to an industrialstrength effort now dependent more on insight and innovation than pure computational power. New effective field theories for the description of quarkonium in different regimes have been developed and brought to a high degree of sophistication, thus enabling precise and solid theoretical predictions. Many expected decays and transitions have either been measured with precision or for the first time, but the confusing patterns of decays, both above and below open-flavor thresholds, endure and have deepened. The intriguing details of quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions that have emerged from RHIC have elevated the importance of separating hotand cold-nuclear-matter effects in quark-gluon plasma studies. This review systematically addresses all these matters and concludes by prioritizing directions for ongoing and future efforts.

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Section: Exclusive Production Of Charmoniamentioning

confidence: 77%

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

Brambilla¹,

Eidelman²,

Heltsley³

et al. 2011

Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei

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“…A special focus of the UPC program at RHIC and LHC are photo-nuclear reactions involving the exclusive production of heavy vector mesons such as J/ψ and ψ(2S) [300]. They provide a good tool for evaluating the behavior of the gluon distribution functions at low x, since the photoproduction cross-section scales at leading order as the square of the gluon distribution G(x, μ 2 ); the scale μ is typically approximated by M V /2, where M V is the mass of the vector meson.…”

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confidence: 99%

Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier

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Abstract. This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community. It was commissioned by the managements of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with the objective of presenting a summary of scientific opportunities and goals of the EIC as a follow-up to the 2007 NSAC Long Range plan. This document is a culmination of a community-wide effort in nuclear science following a series of workshops on EIC physics over the past decades and, in particular, the focused ten-week program on "Gluons and quark sea at high energies" at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Fall 2010. It contains a brief description of a few golden physics measurements along with accelerator and detector concepts required to achieve them. It has been benefited profoundly from inputs by the users' communities of BNL and JLab. This White Paper offers the promise to propel the QCD science program in the US, established with the CEBAF accelerator at JLab and the RHIC collider at BNL, to the next QCD frontier. Preamble Editors' note for the second editionThe first edition of this White Paper was released in 2012. In the current (second) edition, the science case for the EIC is further sharpened in view of the recent data from BNL, CERN and JLab experiments and the lessons learnt from them. Additional improvements were made by taking into account suggestions from the larger nuclear physics community including those made at the EIC Users Group meeting at Stony Brook University in July 2014, and the QCD Town Meeting at Temple University in September 2014.Abhay Deshpande, Zein-Eddine Meziani and Jian-Wei Qiu November 2014 Editors' note for the third edition Since the 2nd release of this White Paper, the NSAC's Long Range Plan (2015) was successfully completed. The EIC is a major recommendation of the US nuclear science community. In the current release (version 3) we have fixed some minor remaining errors in the text, and have added a few new references. While the core science case for the EIC remains the same, the machine designs of both options, the eRHIC at BNL and the JLEIC at JLab keep evolving. In this 3rd release of the EIC White Paper instead of making substantial changes to the machine design sections (5.1 and 5.2), we give references to the most recent machine design documents.

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“…Recently, we have discussed both processes considering pp [5,6,9], pA [7] and AA [4,5] collisions as an alternative to constrain the QCD dynamics at high energies (For recent reviews see Refs. [11,12]). Our results demonstrate that their detection is feasible at the LHC.…”

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Photoproduction ofρ0mesons in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Gonçalves

Machado

2009

Phys. Rev. C

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We investigate the photoproduction of ρ mesons in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies in the dipole approach and within two phenomenological models based on the the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. We estimate the integrated cross section and rapidity distribution for meson production and compare our predictions with the data from the STAR collaboration. In particular, we demonstrate that the total cross section at RHIC is strongly dependent on the energy behavior of the dipole-target cross section at low energies, which is not well determined in the dipole approach. In contrast, the predictions at midrapidities at RHIC and in the full rapidity at LHC are under theoretical control and can be used to test the QCD dynamics at high energies.

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Vector meson production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions

Cited by 59 publications

References 54 publications

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier

Photoproduction ofρ0mesons in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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