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@ARTICLE{Chekhovsky:628954,
author = {Chekhovsky, Vladimir and others},
collaboration = {{CMS Collaboration}},
title = {{O}bservation of coherent $\phi$(1020) meson
photoproduction in ultraperipheral {P}b{P}b collisions at
$\sqrt{s_\text{{NN}}}$ = 5.36 {T}e{V}},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01757, arXiv:2504.05193. CMS-HIN-24-009.
CERN-EP-2025-051},
year = {2025},
note = {Submitted to Physical Review Letters. All figures and
tables can be found at
http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIN-24-009
(CMS Public Pages)},
abstract = {The first observation of coherent $\phi$(1020) meson
photoproduction off heavy nuclei is presented using
ultraperipheral lead-lead collisions at a center-of-mass
energy per nucleon pair of 5.36 TeV. The data were collected
by the CMS experiment and correspond to an integrated
luminosity of 1.68 $\mu$b$^{-1}$. The $\phi$(1020) meson
signals are reconstructed via the K$^+$K$^-$ decay channel.
The production cross section is presented as a function of
the $\phi$(1020) meson rapidity in the range 0.3
$\lt$$\lvert y\rvert$$\lt$ 1.0, probing gluons that carry a
fraction of the nucleon momentum ($x$) around $10^{-4}$. The
observed cross section exhibits little dependence on
rapidity and is significantly suppressed, by a factor of
${\sim}$5, compared to a baseline model that treats a
nucleus as a collection of free nucleons. Theoretical models
that incorporate either nuclear shadowing or gluon
saturation predict suppression of the $\phi$(1020) meson
cross section with only a small dependence on rapidity, but
the magnitude of the predicted suppression varies greatly.
Models considering only nuclear shadowing effects result in
the best agreement with the experimental data. This study
establishes a powerful new tool for exploring nuclear
effects and nuclear gluonic structure in the small-$x$
regime at a unique energy scale bridging the perturbative
and nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics domains.},
cin = {CMS},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)CMS-20120731},
pnm = {611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611) /
HIDSS-0002 - DASHH: Data Science in Hamburg - Helmholtz
Graduate School for the Structure of Matter
$(2019_IVF-HIDSS-0002)$ / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)390833306 -
EXC 2121: Quantum Universe (390833306)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-611 / $G:(DE-HGF)2019_IVF-HIDSS-0002$ /
G:(GEPRIS)390833306},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)LHC-Exp-CMS-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
eprint = {2504.05193},
howpublished = {arXiv:2504.05193},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2504.05193;\%\%$},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2025-01757},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/628954},
}