Heavy quarkonia production at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and future electron-ion colliding facilities using basis light-front quantization wave functions

Guangyao Chen, Yang Li, Kirill Tuchin, James P. Vary

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Abstract

We study exclusive charmonium and bottomonium production in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions and electron-ion collisions within the dipole picture. We employ heavy quarkonium light-front wave functions obtained within the basis light-front quantization framework, which has some features of the light-front holographic QCD. We focus on comparison with measurements of exclusive charmonium and bottomonium production in ultraperipheral pp, pPb, and PbPb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and find reasonable agreement with the cross sections. We also discuss the coherent production cross-section ratios of excited states to the ground state for charmonium and bottomonium, which exhibit insensitivity to the dipole model parameters. We show that electron-ion collisions provide an opportunity for a quantitative study of heavy quarkonium structure.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number025208
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume100
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 23 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank P. Maris and X. Zhao for valuable disucssions. We also thank P. Maris for his insightful comments and suggestions on the manuscript. G.C. acknowledges F. Kopp for providing data on Υ production at LHC. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy under Grants No. DE-FG02-87ER40371 and No. DE-SC0018223 (SciDAC-4/NUCLEI). We acknowledge computational resources provided by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which is supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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© 2019 American Physical Society.

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