Abstract
By using the theoretical approaches that describe well the available data on -integrated coherent photoproduction of light and heavy vector mesons in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Run 1, we calculate the momentum transfer distributions for this process for and vector mesons in the kinematics of Run 2 at the LHC. We demonstrate that nuclear shadowing not only suppresses the absolute value of the cross sections but also shifts the momentum transfer distributions toward smaller values of the momentum transfer . This result can be interpreted as a broadening in the impact parameter space of the effective nucleon density in nuclei by 14% in the case of and the nuclear gluon distribution by 5%–11% in the case of .
- Received 25 November 2016
- Revised 13 January 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.025204
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