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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 316, 2025
The 21st International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2024)
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Article Number | 04011 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Heavy-flavours and Quarkonia | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202531604011 | |
Published online | 27 January 2025 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202531604011
Probing a new regime of ultra-dense gluonic matter using high-energy photons with the CMS experiment
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Published online: 27 January 2025
In ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) involving relativistic heavy ions, the production of heavy-flavor coherent vector mesons through photon-nuclear interactions is a key focus due to its direct sensitivity to the nuclear gluon density. Experimental measurements, however, face a two-way ambiguity as the collision involves two lead ions which can act as both a photon-emitter projectile and a target. This ambiguity hinders the separation of contributions from high and low-energy photon-nucleus interactions, restricting our ability to probe the extremely small-x regime where nonlinear QCD effects are anticipated. This writeup unveils the measurement of coherent heavy quarkonium photoproduction, addressing the two-way ambiguity by employing a forward neutron tagging technique in UPC PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV. Overall these studies focus on the dominance of gluons in nuclear matter probed at higher energies.
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