Volume 485 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025) - T04 Recent developments heavy ion physics, both experimental and theoretical aspects
Gluon shadowing in nuclei and the role of the $c \bar c g$ state in the coherent photoproduction of $J/\psi$ in nucleus-nucleus collisions
A. Luszczak* and W. Schäfer
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: January 09, 2026
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Abstract
Coherent $J/\psi$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral nucleus--nucleus collisions is widely used as a proxy
for small-$x$ nuclear gluon shadowing.
In the color-dipole picture, multiple scatterings of the $c\bar c$ dipole in the nuclear medium generate a sizable
suppression already at $x\sim 10^{-2}$.
At higher energies, however, inelastic (Gribov) shadowing associated with higher Fock states becomes important.
We summarize a dipole calculation in which the leading $c\bar c g$ state is included on top of Glauber--Gribov
rescattering, and we show that it provides the additional suppression required by the LHC data at small~$x$.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.485.0212
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