https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03729-4
Regular Article
Scaling properties of exclusive vector meson production cross section from gluon saturation
1
Physics Department, Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA
2
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, 27708, Durham, NC, USA
3
Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Shandong University, 266237, Qingdao, China
b
vladimir.khachatryan@duke.edu
Received:
18
February
2022
Accepted:
19
January
2023
Published online:
2
February
2023
It is already known from phenomenological studies that in exclusive deep-inelastic scattering off nuclei there appears to be a scaling behavior of vector meson production cross section in both nuclear mass number, A, and photon virtuality, 
, which is strongly modified due to gluon saturation effects. In this work we continue those studies in a realistic setup based upon using the Monte Carlo event generator Sartre. We make quantitative predictions for the kinematics of the Electron-Ion Collider, focusing on this A and scaling picture, along with establishing a small region of squared momentum transfer, t, where there are signs of this scaling that may potentially be observed at the EIC. Our results are represented as pseudo-data of vector meson production diffractive cross section and/or their ratios, which are obtained by parsing data collected by the event generator through smearing functions, emulating the proposed detector resolutions for the future EIC.
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