- Accepted Paper
Photoproduction of in peripheral oxygen-oxygen collisions
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 22 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/58n4-7yrw
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 22 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/58n4-7yrw
We investigate photoproduction in peripheral oxygen–oxygen () collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), considering different models for the nuclear photon flux, the overlap function, and the dipole–proton scattering amplitude. We present predictions for the corresponding rapidity distributions and total cross sections. Our results indicate that an experimental study of photoproduction in peripheral collisions is, in principle, feasible. In addition, they suggest that combining results for this final state in collisions with those obtained in collisions can provide important constraints on the description of photon-induced processes in peripheral collisions.
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