Light vector meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at the LHC within the Reggeometric Pomeron approach

TL;DR

This paper applies the Reggeometric Pomeron model to analyze light vector meson photoproduction in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions at the LHC, providing predictions for rapidity distributions across different collision systems.

Contribution

It extends the Reggeometric Pomeron approach to heavy ion collisions, offering a unified description of vector meson production at high energies.

Findings

Predicted rapidity distributions for $ ho$ and $\,phi$ mesons in various collision systems.

Model successfully describes existing high energy lepton-nucleon data.

Provides theoretical predictions for upcoming experimental measurements.

Abstract

By using the Reggeometric Pomeron model for vector meson production which successfully describes the high energy lepton-nucleon data, we analyse the light meson production in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The rapidity distributions for $\rho$ and $\phi$ photoproduction in lead-lead, xenon-xenon and oxygen-oxygen collisions are investigated.