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Exclusive photoproduction of excited $\rho$ mesons decaying to four pions in ultraperipheral Pb–Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV / S. Acharya [et al.], B. BALIŚ, [et al.], M. GORGOŃ, [et al.], A. HORZYK, [et al.], M. JABŁOŃSKI, [et al.], J. P. KITOWSKI, [et al.], S. D. KORYCIAK, [et al.], T. M. LELEK, [et al.], E. M. MAJERZ, [et al.], R. W. MARCJAN, [et al.], P. G. RUSSEK, [et al.] // Physics Letters . B ; ISSN 0370-2693. — 2026 — vol. 872 art. no. 140006, s. 1–13. — Bibliogr. s. 12–13, Abstr. — Publikacja dostępna online od: 2025-11-16
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| ID BaDAP | 165098 |
|---|---|
| Data dodania do BaDAP | 2026-01-08 |
| Tekst źródłowy | URL |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.physletb.2025.140006 |
| Rok publikacji | 2026 |
| Typ publikacji | artykuł w czasopiśmie |
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| Czasopismo/seria | Physics Letters, B |
Abstract
The intense photon fluxes from relativistic nuclei provide an opportunity to study photonuclear interactions in ultraperipheral collisions. In particular, it allows for the investigations of excited, light-flavour vector mesons. The measurement of coherently photoproduced π+π−π+π− final states in ultraperipheral Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV is presented for the first time. The cross section, d σ /d y , times the branching ratio (ρ→π+π+π−π−) is found to be 47.8 ± 2.3 (stat.) ± 7.7 (syst.) mb in the rapidity interval | y | < 0.5. The invariant mass distribution is not well described with a single Breit-Wigner resonance without an interference term. Including interference with a non-resonant contribution results in the mass and width values being too far from those reported in PDG, while the production of two interfering resonances, ρ (1450) and ρ (1700), also provides a good description of the data. The values of the masses ( m ) and widths (Γ) of the resonances extracted from the fit assuming two interfering resonances are m1=1385±14(stat.)±3(syst.) MeV/ c 2, Γ1=431±36(stat.)±82(syst.) MeV/ c 2, m2=1663±13(stat.)±22(syst.) MeV/ c 2 and Γ2=357±31(stat.)±49(syst.) MeV/ c 2, respectively. The measured cross sections times the branching ratios are compared to recent theoretical predictions.