We study the impact of neutron-skin thickness on J/ψphotoproduction in ultra-peripheral208Pb+208Pb collisions.Within the color glass condensate framework,we calculate coherent and incoherent cross sections and ...We study the impact of neutron-skin thickness on J/ψphotoproduction in ultra-peripheral208Pb+208Pb collisions.Within the color glass condensate framework,we calculate coherent and incoherent cross sections and examine their dependence on the momentum transfer|t|for different neutron-skin thicknesses.We find a clear imprint of the neutron skin on the|t|spectra:a larger neutron skin leads to a smoother and more extended colordensity profile,suppressing the coherent cross section at large|t|while enhancing the incoherent cross section through increased event-by-event configurational fluctuations in the nuclear periphery.We further show that the ratio of incoherent to coherent integrated cross sections provides a particularly sensitive and robust observable,with reduced theoretical uncertainties.These results establish diffractive vector-meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions as a powerful tomographic tool to constrain the neutron-skin thickness and the transverse gluon distribution at the LHC and future electronśion colliders.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Nos.2024YFA1612600 and 2022YFA1604900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12025501 and 12547102)+2 种基金Shanghai Pujiang Talents Program(Grant No.24PJA009)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2024M750489)the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(Grant No.23JC1400200)。
摘要We study the impact of neutron-skin thickness on J/ψphotoproduction in ultra-peripheral208Pb+208Pb collisions.Within the color glass condensate framework,we calculate coherent and incoherent cross sections and examine their dependence on the momentum transfer|t|for different neutron-skin thicknesses.We find a clear imprint of the neutron skin on the|t|spectra:a larger neutron skin leads to a smoother and more extended colordensity profile,suppressing the coherent cross section at large|t|while enhancing the incoherent cross section through increased event-by-event configurational fluctuations in the nuclear periphery.We further show that the ratio of incoherent to coherent integrated cross sections provides a particularly sensitive and robust observable,with reduced theoretical uncertainties.These results establish diffractive vector-meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions as a powerful tomographic tool to constrain the neutron-skin thickness and the transverse gluon distribution at the LHC and future electronśion colliders.