Photoproduction of $J/\Psi$ in peripheral Oxygen-Oxygen collisions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the photoproduction of J/Ψ in peripheral Oxygen-Oxygen collisions at the LHC, providing predictions for rapidity distributions and cross-sections, and discussing the potential for experimental study and constraining photon-induced processes.

Contribution

It offers new predictions for J/Ψ photoproduction in O-O collisions considering different modeling assumptions, aiding future experimental and theoretical work.

Findings

Predicted rapidity distributions and total cross-sections for J/Ψ photoproduction.

Feasibility of experimental study of J/Ψ photoproduction in peripheral O-O collisions.

Combining O-O and PbPb collision results can constrain photon-induced process models.

Abstract

The photoproduction of $J/\Psi$ in peripheral Oxygen - Oxygen ($OO$) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is investigated considering distinct assumptions for the modeling of the nuclear photon flux, overlap function and dipole - proton scattering amplitude. Predictions for the associated rapidity distributions and total cross - sections are presented. Our results indicate that the experimental study of the photoproduction of $J/\Psi$ in peripheral $OO$ collisions is, in principle, feasible. In addition, they point out that the combination of the results for this final state in $OO$ collisions with those obtained for $PbPb$ collisions will allow us to derive important constraints on the description of photon - induced process at peripheral collisions.