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@ARTICLE{Chekhovsky:645859,
author = {Chekhovsky, Vladimir and others},
collaboration = {{CMS Collaboration}},
title = {{O}bservation of {C}oherent ϕ(1020) {M}eson
{P}hotoproduction in {U}ltraperipheral {P}b{P}b {C}ollisions
at s{NN}=5.36 {T}e{V}},
journal = {Physical review letters},
volume = {135},
number = {26},
issn = {0031-9007},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {PUBDB-2026-00658, arXiv:2504.05193. CMS-HIN-24-009.
CERN-EP-2025-051},
pages = {262301},
year = {2025},
abstract = {The first observation of coherent ϕ(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 1.62 μb−1. The ϕ(1020) meson signals are
reconstructed via the K+K− decay channel. The production
cross section is presented as a function of the ϕ(1020)
meson rapidity in the range 0.3<|y|<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
∼5, compared to a baseline model that treats a nucleus as
a collection of free nucleons. Theoretical models that
incorporate the nuclear shadowing effect generally provide a
better description of the ϕ(1020) data than those
incorporating gluon saturation. 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},
ddc = {530},
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)16},
eprint = {2504.05193},
howpublished = {arXiv:2504.05193},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2504.05193;\%\%$},
doi = {10.1103/2ssw-wwyy},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/645859},
}