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J/ψ photoproduction in Pb-Pb peripheral collisions at sNN=5 TeV

R. Aaij32, C. Abellán Beteta50, T. Ackernley60, B. Adeva46, M. Adinolfi54, H. Afsharnia9, C. A. Aidala85, S. Aiola25, Z. Ajaltouni9 et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Z. Ajaltouni9, S. Akar65, J. Albrecht15, F. Alessio48, M. Alexander59, A. Alfonso Albero45, Z. Aliouche62, G. Alkhazov38, P. Alvarez Cartelle55, S. Amato2, Y. Amhis11, L. An48, L. Anderlini22, A. Andreianov38, M. Andreotti21, F. Archilli17, A. Artamonov44, M. Artuso68, K. Arzymatov42, E. Aslanides10, M. Atzeni50, B. Audurier12, S. Bachmann17, M. Bachmayer49, J. J. Back56, P. Baladron Rodriguez46, V. Balagura12, W. Baldini21, J. Baptista Leite1, R. J. Barlow62, S. Barsuk11, W. Barter61, M. Bartolini24,a, F. Baryshnikov82, J. M. Basels14, G. Bassi29, B. Batsukh68, A. Battig15, A. Bay49, M. Becker15, F. Bedeschi29, I. Bediaga1, A. Beiter68, V. Belavin42, S. Belin27, V. Bellee49, K. Belous44, I. Belov40, I. Belyaev41, G. Bencivenni23, E. Ben-Haim13, A. Berezhnoy40, R. Bernet50, D. Berninghoff17, H. C. Bernstein68, C. Bertella48, A. Bertolin28, C. Betancourt50, F. Betti48, Ia. Bezshyiko50, S. Bhasin54, J. Bhom35, L. Bian73, M. S. Bieker15, S. Bifani53, P. Billoir13, M. Birch61, F. C. R. 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  • 1Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 3Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • 4Institute Of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, China
  • 5School of Physics State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • 6University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 7Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
  • 8Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy, France
  • 9Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • 10Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
  • 11Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Orsay, France
  • 12Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
  • 13LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
  • 14I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
  • 15Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
  • 16Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
  • 17Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 18School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • 19INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 20INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 21INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
  • 22INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
  • 23INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
  • 24INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
  • 25INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
  • 26INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
  • 27INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
  • 28Universita degli Studi di Padova, Universita e INFN, Padova, Padova, Italy
  • 29INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • 30INFN Sezione di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
  • 31INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
  • 32Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 33Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 34AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland
  • 35Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
  • 36National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland
  • 37Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
  • 38Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute NRC Kurchatov Institute (PNPI NRC KI), Gatchina, Russia
  • 39Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAS), Moscow, Russia
  • 40Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia
  • 41Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (ITEP NRC KI), Moscow, Russia
  • 42Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia
  • 43Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 44Institute for High Energy Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (IHEP NRC KI), Protvino, Russia, Protvino, Russia
  • 45ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • 46Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • 47Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, Valencia, Spain
  • 48European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
  • 49Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 50Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 51NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 52Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 53University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • 54H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • 55Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 56Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • 57STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
  • 58School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 59School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • 60Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 61Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  • 62Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • 63Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • 64Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • 65University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • 66University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • 67Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  • 68Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
  • 69School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, associated to56
  • 70Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, associated to2
  • 71Physics and Micro Electronic College, Hunan University, Changsha City, China, associated to7
  • 72Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nuclear Science, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Quantum Matter, Institute of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, associated to3
  • 73School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, associated to3
  • 74Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, associated to13
  • 75Universität Bonn - Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen und Kernphysik, Bonn, Germany, associated to17
  • 76Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany, associated to17
  • 77INFN Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, associated to21
  • 78Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, associated to32
  • 79Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands, associated to32
  • 80National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia, associated to41
  • 81National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, associated to42
  • 82National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, Moscow, Russia, associated to41
  • 83National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia, associated to41
  • 84DS4DS, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, associated to45
  • 85University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, associated to68

  • aAlso at Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
  • bAlso at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
  • cAlso at Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
  • dAlso at Università di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
  • eAlso at Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  • fAlso at Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  • gAlso at Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
  • hAlso at Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
  • iAlso at Department of Physics, Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • jAlso at Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
  • kAlso at Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Uberaba-MG, Brazil.
  • lAlso at Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou, China.
  • mAlso at AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Kraków, Poland.
  • nAlso at Università di Siena, Siena, Italy.
  • oAlso at Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
  • pAlso at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
  • qAlso at Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
  • rAlso at MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), Iligan, Philippines.
  • sAlso at Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
  • tAlso at Hanoi University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • uAlso at P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Science (LPI RAS), Moscow, Russia.
  • vAlso at Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
  • wAlso at Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
  • xAlso at Università di Urbino, Urbino, Italy.

Phys. Rev. C 105, L032201 – Published 3 March, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.L032201

Abstract

The photoproduction of J/ψ mesons at low transverse momentum is studied in peripheral lead-lead collisions collected by the LHCb Collaboration at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 210 μb−1. The J/ψ candidates are reconstructed through the prompt decay into two muons of opposite charge in the rapidity region of 2.0<y<4.5. The results significantly improve previous measurements and are compared to the latest theoretical prediction.

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