https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3931-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Double vector meson production in 
interactions at hadronic colliders
1
Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
2
High and Medium Energy Group, Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Caixa Postal 354, 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
3
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
* e-mail: barros@ufpel.edu.br
** e-mail: victor.goncalves@thep.lu.se
Received:
23
December
2015
Accepted:
1
February
2016
Published online:
26
February
2016
In this paper we revisit the double vector meson production in interactions at heavy ion collisions and present, by the first time, predictions for the 
and 
production in proton–nucleus and proton–proton collisions. In order to obtain realistic predictions for rapidity distributions and total cross sections for the double vector production in ultra peripheral hadronic collisions we take into account the description of 
cross section at low energies as well as its behavior at large energies, associated to the gluonic interaction between the color dipoles. Our results demonstrate that the double 
production is dominated by the low energy behavior of the cross section. In contrast, for the double 
production, the contribution associated to the description of the QCD dynamics at high energies contributes significantly, mainly in pp collisions. Predictions for the RHIC, LHC, FCC, and CEPC–SPPC energies are shown.
© The Author(s), 2016
