Quarkonium production in coherent hadron-hadron interactions at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper estimates the production rates of quarkonium in high-energy coherent hadron-hadron collisions at the LHC using the Color Glass Condensate framework, highlighting potential for experimental observation.

Contribution

It applies the CGC formalism to predict quarkonium production cross sections and rapidity distributions at LHC energies, providing new theoretical estimates.

Findings

Predicted large production rates for J/Psi and Upsilon.

Estimated integrated cross sections and rapidity distributions.

Feasibility of experimental detection at the LHC.

Abstract

The photoproduction of quarkonium in coherent hadron-hadron (pp/pA/AA$) interactions for LHC energies is an important tool to investigate the QCD dynamics at high energies. In this paper we estimate the integrated cross section and rapidity distribution for J/Psi and Upsilon production using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. We predict large rates, implying that the experimental identification could be feasible at the LHC.