Exclusive photoproduction of light vector meson in coherent collisions at the LHC energies

Abstract

In this work we present our predictions for the rapidity distribution for 0 and photoproduction in coherent pp and AA collisions at the LHC energies using the color dipole approach. In particular, we perform an analysis on the uncertainties associated to the choice of vector meson wavefunction and the phenomenological models for the dipole cross section. Comparison is done with the recent ALICE analysis on coherent production of 0 at 2.76 TeV in PbPb collisions.