https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2011-11117-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Diffractive vector meson production at large t in coherent hadronic interactions at CERN LHC
High and Medium Energy Group, Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Caixa Postal 354, CEP 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
* e-mail: barros@ufpel.edu.br
Received:
13
July
2011
Revised:
6
September
2011
Accepted:
13
September
2011
Published online:
11
October
2011
The diffractive vector meson photoproduction with hadron dissociation in coherent hadron-hadron interactions at LHC energies is studied assuming that the color singlet t-channel exchange carries large momentum transfer. We estimate the rapidity distribution and total cross-section for the processes pp → pVX and PbPb → PbVX (V = ρ or ϒ considering the non-forward solution of the BFKL equation at high energy and large momentum transfer. Our results indicate that the experimental identification of these processes can be feasible at the LHC.
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