Probing the Low x Gluon with Exclusive $J/\psi$ Production
S. Jones*, A. Martin, M. Ryskin and T. Teubner
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: October 21, 2017
Published on: January 16, 2018
Abstract
We present an updated and improved extraction of the low-$x$ gluon distribution from the HERA and LHCb exclusive $J/\psi$ production data in the context of $k_T$ factorisation. Critically, we use a more precise expression for the photon flux and updated rapidity gap survival factors.

In collinear factorisation, exclusive $J/\psi$ photoproduction receives large perturbative corrections at next-to-leading order which depend sensitively on the factorisation scale. This prevents the use of the available data to extract a gluon PDF within this framework. Attempts to understand and overcome the problems caused by the large perturbative corrections are discussed.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.297.0032
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