Coherent ψ(2S) photo-production in ultra-peripheral Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.040

Coherent ψ(2S) photo-production in ultra-peripheral Pb–Pb collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV

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Abstract

We have performed the first measurement of the coherent ψ(2S) photo-production cross section in ultra-peripheral Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC. This charmonium excited state is reconstructed via the ψ(2S)→l⁺l⁻ and ψ(2S)→J/ψπ⁺π⁻ decays, where the J/ψ decays into two leptons. The analysis is based on an event sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 22 μb⁻¹. The cross section for coherent ψ(2S) production in the rapidity interval −0.9<y<0.9 is dσ_ψ(2S) ^coh/dy=0.83±0.19(stat+syst) mb. The ψ(2S) to J/ψ coherent cross section ratio is 0.34_−0.07 ^+0.08(stat+syst). The obtained results are compared to predictions from theoretical models.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	358-370
Number of pages	13
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	751
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.040
State	Published - Dec 17 2015
Externally published	Yes

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The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centres and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) Collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: State Committee of Science, World Federation of Scientists (WFS) and Swiss Fonds Kidagan, Armenia, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Chinese Ministry of Education (CMOE) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MSTC); Ministry of Education and Youth of the Czech Republic; Danish Natural Science Research Council, the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish National Research Foundation; The European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme; Helsinki Institute of Physics and the Academy of Finland; French CNRS-IN2P3, the ‘Region Pays de Loire’ ‘Region Alsace’ ‘Region Auvergne’ and CEA, France; German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and the Helmholtz Association; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Development, Greece; Hungarian Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alappgrammok (OTKA) and National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH); Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and Centro Fermi – Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi” Italy; MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico (DGAPA), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique – European Commission (ALFA-EC) and the EPLANET Program (European Particle Physics Latin American Network); Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; Research Council of Norway (NFR); National Science Centre, Poland; Ministry of National Education/Institute for Atomic Physics and National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSI-UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy, Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations and The Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Ministry of Education of Slovakia; Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa; Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT), E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America (EELA), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain, Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación), Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Cubaenergía, Cuba, and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency); Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW); Ukraine Ministry of Education and Science; United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); The United States Department of Energy, the United States National Science Foundation, the State of Texas, and the State of Ohio; Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity through Knowledge Fund, Croatia; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centres and the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) Collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: State Committee of Science , World Federation of Scientists (WFS) and Swiss Fonds Kidagan , Armenia, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico ( CNPq ), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos ( FINEP ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo ( FAPESP ); National Natural Science Foundation of China ( NSFC ), the Chinese Ministry of Education (CMOE) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MSTC); Ministry of Education and Youth of the Czech Republic ; Danish Natural Science Research Council , the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish National Research Foundation ; The European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme ; Helsinki Institute of Physics and the Academy of Finland ; French CNRS-IN2P3 , the ‘Region Pays de Loire’, ‘Region Alsace’, ‘Region Auvergne’ and CEA , France; German Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie ( BMBF ) and the Helmholtz Association ; General Secretariat for Research and Technology , Ministry of Development , Greece; Hungarian Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alappgrammok ( OTKA ) and National Office for Research and Technology ( NKTH ); Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India ; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare ( INFN ) and Centro Fermi – Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi” , Italy; MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research , Dubna; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico ( DGAPA ), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique – European Commission (ALFA-EC) and the EPLANET Program (European Particle Physics Latin American Network); Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie ( FOM ) and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ( NWO ), Netherlands; Research Council of Norway (NFR); National Science Centre , Poland; Ministry of National Education/Institute for Atomic Physics and National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSI-UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation , Russian Academy of Sciences , Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy , Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations and The Russian Foundation for Basic Research ; Ministry of Education of Slovakia ; Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa ; Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas ( CIEMAT ), E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America ( EELA ), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad ( MINECO ) of Spain, Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación), Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear ( CEADEN ), Cubaenergía , Cuba, and IAEA ( International Atomic Energy Agency ); Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW); Ukraine Ministry of Education and Science ; United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council ( STFC ); The United States Department of Energy , the United States National Science Foundation , the State of Texas , and the State of Ohio ; Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity through Knowledge Fund , Croatia; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.

Funders	Funder number
ALFA-EC
CNCSI-UEFISCDI
Danish Natural Science Research Council
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India
Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico ( DGAPA ), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique
General Secretariat for Research and Technology , Ministry of Development
Helsinki Institute of Physics
Hungarian Orszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alappgrammok
MSTC
Ministry of Education and Youth of the Czech Republic
Ministry of Education of Slovakia
Ministry of National Education/Institute for Atomic Physics and National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity
NFR
Region Auvergne’ and CEA
Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy , Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations
State Committee of Science , World Federation
Swiss Fonds Kidagan
United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council
Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación
National Science Foundation	1307461, 1407051
U.S. Department of Energy
Unity through Knowledge Fund
California Earthquake Authority
Science and Technology Facilities Council	2014 STFC Nuclear Physics CG, ST/M001601/1, ST/L005689/1, ALICE, ST/L005751/1, GRIDPP, ST/J000094/1, ST/J000108/1, ST/L005670/1, ST/M00158X/1, ST/M001598/1
European Commission
European Research Council
Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	15H03664, 25287048, 26610071
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Academy of Finland	CNRS-IN2P3
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Russian Academy of Sciences
Carlsbergfondet
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
National Research Foundation of Korea
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Nemzeti Kutatási és Technológiai Hivatal
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Vetenskapsrådet
International Atomic Energy Agency
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Seventh Framework Programme
Norges Forskningsråd
Ministarstvo Znanosti, Obrazovanja i Sporta
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Frauen
State Committee of Science
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Helmholtz Association
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie
Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire
Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi
Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear

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