Dijet photoproduction and transverse-plane geometry in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions
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| author | Eskola, Kari J. Guzey, Vadim Helenius, Ilkka Paakkinen, Petja Paukkunen, Hannu |
| author_facet | Eskola, Kari J. Guzey, Vadim Helenius, Ilkka Paakkinen, Petja Paukkunen, Hannu |
| contents | We present new NLO pQCD predictions for the inclusive photoproduction of dijets in ultra-peripheral (UPC) lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV with a realistic impact-parameter dependent effective photon flux obtained through the Woods-Saxon nuclear profile. For the first time in NLO inclusive UPC dijet predictions, we take into account also the modelling of the forward-neutron event class required in the experimental measurements. We show that since the dijet photoproduction at forward rapidities requires an energetic photon in the initial state, this biases the cross section to be dominated by events with relatively small impact parameters between the nuclei, of the order of a few nuclear radii. This leads to a sensitivity to the transverse-plane collision geometry, which we take properly into account by including effects from the finite extent of both the photon-emitting and the target nucleus. We also test the potential sensitivity to the spatial dependence of nuclear parton distribution functions in connection with this finding. |
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| spellingShingle | Dijet photoproduction and transverse-plane geometry in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions Eskola, Kari J. Guzey, Vadim Helenius, Ilkka Paakkinen, Petja Paukkunen, Hannu High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We present new NLO pQCD predictions for the inclusive photoproduction of dijets in ultra-peripheral (UPC) lead-lead collisions at 5.02 TeV with a realistic impact-parameter dependent effective photon flux obtained through the Woods-Saxon nuclear profile. For the first time in NLO inclusive UPC dijet predictions, we take into account also the modelling of the forward-neutron event class required in the experimental measurements. We show that since the dijet photoproduction at forward rapidities requires an energetic photon in the initial state, this biases the cross section to be dominated by events with relatively small impact parameters between the nuclei, of the order of a few nuclear radii. This leads to a sensitivity to the transverse-plane collision geometry, which we take properly into account by including effects from the finite extent of both the photon-emitting and the target nucleus. We also test the potential sensitivity to the spatial dependence of nuclear parton distribution functions in connection with this finding. |
| title | Dijet photoproduction and transverse-plane geometry in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02171 |