Light vector meson photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy‐ion collisions at the LHC within the Reggeometric Pomeron approach

Abstract

By using the Reggeometric Pomeron model for vector meson production which successfully describes the high energy lepton‐nucleon data, we analyze the light meson production in ultra‐peripheral heavy‐ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The rapidity distributions for ρ and ϕ photoproduction in lead–lead, xenon–xenon and oxygen– oxygen collisions are investigated.