Photoproduction of Heavy Vector Mesons at the LHC

Abstract

The strong electromagnetic fields associated with high energy protons and nuclei may lead to exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. This paper will discuss the expected cross sections and rapidity and transverse momentum distributions.

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Presented at Physics at LHC, Vienna, Austria, July 13-17, 2004. To be published in Czechoslovak Journal of Physics