Production of exotic charmonium in $\gamma \gamma$ interactions at hadronic colliders

TL;DR

This paper explores the production of exotic charmonium states via gamma-gamma interactions in various high-energy collider collisions, highlighting the feasibility of experimental studies to inform theoretical models and understand multiquark configurations.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed predictions for exotic charmonium production in gamma-gamma interactions at LHC and FCC energies, emphasizing experimental feasibility.

Findings

Production rates are within detectable ranges at LHC and FCC.

Study constrains theoretical decay widths of exotic charmonium.

Supports multiquark state configuration hypotheses.

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the Exotic Charmonium (EC) production in $\gamma \gamma$ interactions present in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies as well as for the proposed energies of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). Our results demonstrate that the experimental study of these processes is feasible and can be used to constrain the theoretical decay widths and shed some light on the configuration of the considered multiquark states.