Coherent and incoherent $J/\Psi$ photoproduction in $PbPb$ collisions at the LHC, HE -- LHC and FCC

TL;DR

This paper investigates coherent and incoherent J/Ψ photoproduction in PbPb collisions at various collider energies, emphasizing the role of nucleon configurations and non-linear QCD effects to aid future experimental discrimination of QCD models.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis considering nucleon configurations and non-linear QCD corrections for J/Ψ photoproduction in heavy-ion collisions at upcoming collider energies.

Findings

Cross sections and distributions estimated for LHC, HE-LHC, and FCC energies.

Results suggest future experiments can distinguish between QCD models.

Enhanced understanding of gluon saturation effects in nuclear collisions.

Abstract

The coherent and incoherent $J/\Psi$ photoproduction in $PbPb$ collisions are investigated considering the possible states of nucleon configurations in the nuclear wave function and taking into account of the non - linear corrections to the QCD dynamics. The cross sections and the rapidity and transverse momentum distributions are estimated for the energies of the next run of the LHC, High -- Energy LHC and Future Circular Collider. Our results indicate that a future experimental analysis of these processes will be useful to discriminate between different approaches for the QCD dynamics as well to improve our description of the gluon saturation effects.