Speaker
Joakim Nystrand
(Department of Physics and Technology)
Description
Exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons have been studied in
electron-proton and electron-nucleus interactions, for example
at HERA, and lately also in heavy-ion collisions at the
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL[1,2]. Mid-rapidity
photoproduction of heavy vector mesons in proton-proton and
nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN is a sensitive probe of the gluon distribution in protons
and nuclei. The results from RHIC will be summarized and the
expectated cross section for vector meson production at the LHC
will be presented. Experimental techniques for identifying
photoproduced vector mesons in hadronic and nuclear collisions
will be discussed.
Author
Joakim Nystrand
(Department of Physics and Technology)
