Diffractive vector meson production at large t in coherent hadronic interactions at CERN LHC
Abstract
The diffractive vector meson photoproduction with hadron dissociation in coherent hadron-hadron interactions at LHC energies is studied assuming that the color singlet t-channel exchange carries large momentum transfer. We estimate the rapidity distribution and total cross-section for the processes pp → pVX and PbPb → PbVX (V = ρ or ϒ considering the non-forward solution of the BFKL equation at high energy and large momentum transfer. Our results indicate that the experimental identification of these processes can be feasible at the LHC.
- Publication:
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European Physical Journal A
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1140/epja/i2011-11117-1
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1004.1952
- Bibcode:
- 2011EPJA...47..117G
- Keywords:
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- Transverse Momentum;
- Vector Meson;
- Rapidity Distribution;
- PbPb Collision;
- Large Momentum Transfer;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Version to be published in European Physical Journal A