Inelastic quarkonium photoproduction in coherent hadron - hadron interactions at LHC energies

TL;DR

This paper investigates inelastic quarkonium photoproduction in coherent hadron-hadron interactions at LHC energies, providing estimates of cross sections and rapidity distributions to aid understanding of heavy quarkonium production mechanisms.

Contribution

It offers the first detailed estimates of inelastic quarkonium photoproduction cross sections and distributions in coherent hadron collisions at LHC energies.

Findings

Predicted cross sections for J/Ψ and Υ production.

Rapidity distributions at LHC energies.

Potential to clarify heavy quarkonium production mechanisms.

Abstract

In this paper we study the inelastic quarkonium photoproduction in coherent $pp/pPb/PbPb$ interactions. Considering the ultra relativistic hadrons as a source of photons, we estimate the total $ h_1 + h_2 \rightarrow h \otimes V + X$ ($V = J/\Psi$ and $\Upsilon$) cross sections and rapidity distributions at LHC energies. Our results demonstrate that the experimental analysis of this process can be used to understand the underlying mechanism governing heavy quarkonium production.