Exclusive Photoproduction of Upsilon in pPb collisions with the CMS

Abstract

Results of exclusive photoproduction of Upsilon states in Ultraperipheral collisions (UPC) of protons and ions with the CMS experiment are presented, which provides a clean probe of the gluon distribution at small values of parton fractional momenta $x \approx 10^{-2} 10^{4}$ at central rapidities (|y| $< 2.5$). The three Upsilon states (1S, 2S, 3S) are measured in the dimuon decay channel along with the photon-photon decaying to dimuon QED continuum at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$~TeV for integrated luminosity of $L_{int} = 35$ nb$^{-1}$. The total Upsilon photoproduction cross sections at different photon-proton center of mass energy $W_{\gamma p}$ and t-differential distributions are presented and compared with other experimental results as well as theoretical predictions.