1305.1724 (V. Guzey et al.)

Evidence for nuclear gluon shadowing from the ALICE measurements of PbPb
ultraperipheral exclusive J/ψ production    [PDF]

V. Guzey, E. Kryshen, M. Strikman, M. Zhalov

We show that the recent ALICE measurements of exclusive J/{\psi} production in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV provide the first direct experimental evidence for the strong nuclear gluon shadowing in lead at $x \sim 10^{-3}$. The evidence is based on the comparison of the nuclear suppression factor S(x\approx 0.001)=0.61^{+0.05}_{-0.04} found in the analysis of the coherent J/{\psi} photoproduction cross sections measured by ALICE with the nuclear gluon shadowing predicted by the global fits of nuclear parton distributions and by the leading twist theory of nuclear shadowing.

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