Evidence for nuclear gluon shadowing from the ALICE measurements of PbPb ultraperipheral exclusive J/ψ production

V. Guzey; E. Kryshen; M. Strikman; M. Zhalov

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.08.043

Evidence for nuclear gluon shadowing from the ALICE measurements of PbPb ultraperipheral exclusive J/ψ production

V. Guzey
, E. Kryshen
, M. Strikman
, M. Zhalov

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We show that the recent ALICE measurements of exclusive J/ψ production in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV provide the first direct experimental evidence for the strong nuclear gluon shadowing in lead at x~10^-3. The evidence is based on the comparison of the nuclear suppression factor S(x≈0.001)=0.61-0.04+0.05 found in the analysis of the coherent J/ψ photoproduction cross sections measured by ALICE with the nuclear gluon shadowing predicted by the global fits of nuclear parton distributions and by the leading twist theory of nuclear shadowing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	290-295
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	726
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.08.043
State	Published - 2013

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Evidence for nuclear gluon shadowing from the ALICE measurements of PbPb ultraperipheral exclusive J/ψ production

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