Exclusive Photoproduction of Upsilon in pPb collisions with the CMS

Jun 24, 2016

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Results of exclusive photoproduction of Upsilon states in Ultraperipheral collisions (UPC) of protons and ions with the CMS experiment are presented, which provides a clean probe of the gluon distribution at small values of parton fractional momenta x102104x \approx 10^{-2} 10^{4} at central rapidities (|y| <2.5< 2.5). The three Upsilon states (1S, 2S, 3S) are measured in the dimuon decay channel along with the photon-photon decaying to dimuon QED continuum at sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02~TeV for integrated luminosity of Lint=35L_{int} = 35 nb1^{-1}. The total Upsilon photoproduction cross sections at different photon-proton center of mass energy WγpW_{\gamma p} and t-differential distributions are presented and compared with other experimental results as well as theoretical predictions.
Note:
  • To appear in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2015), Kolkata, India. February 2-6, 2015
  • talk: Kolkata 2015/02/02
  • p nucleus: interaction
  • lead
  • dimuon: mass spectrum
  • upsilon mesons: exclusive production
  • upsilon mesons: photoproduction
  • upsilon mesons: leptonic decay
  • CMS
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • quantum electrodynamics