Flavor-dependent photoproduction in heavy-ion collisions |
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Authors: | Zhuoxuan Xie Ruilin Han |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Physics, University of Rochester, NY 14627, United States of America;2.Tianjin Xinhua High School, Tianjin 300350, China |
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Abstract: | Strong electromagnetic fields produced in the non-central heavy-ion collisions can induce vector meson photoproduction. In this paper, we study the photoproduction J/ψ and φ mesons in the relativistic heavy-ion collision from ultra-peripheral nuclear collisions to peripheral hadronic heavy ion collisions. And then include both initial hadronic production and thermal production in quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We find, for the charm anti-charm bound state J/ψ, the photoproduced J/ψs are mainly in the very low momentum region and clearly exceed the hadronic production. However, considering the thermal production of strange quark anti-quark pairs in QGP produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the photoproduced φ is usually smaller than the thermal production and only evident at very peripheral collisions as even their photoproduction is much larger than J/ψ. |
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Keywords: | relativistic heavy ion collisions photoproduction quark gluon plasma charmonium production |
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