Vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC

Abstract

By using a Regge-pole model for vector meson production (VMP), successfully describing the HERA data, we analyse the correlation between VMP cross sections in photon-induced reactions at HERA and those in ultra-peripheral collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Predictions for future experiments on production of $J/\psi$ and $\psi (2S)$ are presented.