https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6816-2
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Energy dependence of exclusive 
photoproduction off protons in ultra-peripheral p–Pb collisions at 
TeV
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A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
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Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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Bose Institute, Department of Physics and Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
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Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Centre de Calcul de l’IN2P3, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
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Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
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Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi’, Rome, Italy
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Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, USA
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China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
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Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan
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Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA
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Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università ’La Sapienza’ and Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell’Università and Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell’Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
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Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
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Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India
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Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
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High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Hochschule Worms, Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Worms, Germany
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
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INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
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Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
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Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
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Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
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Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
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Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
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Nara Women’s University (NWU), Nara, Japan
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Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Athens, Greece
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
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National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
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National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
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NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
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Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řežu Prahy, Czech Republic
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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Physics Department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
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Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai, China
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St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon, Ratchasima, Thailand
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Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster ’Universe’, Munich, Germany
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The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
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University College of Southeast Norway, Tonsberg, Norway
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University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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Department de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Université Paris-Saclay Centre dÉtudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Saclay, France
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Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Pavia and Sezione INFN, Pavia, Italy
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Università di Brescia and Sezione INFN, Brescia, Italy
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Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: alice-publications@cern.ch
Received:
25
September
2018
Accepted:
30
March
2019
Published online:
12
May
2019
The ALICE Collaboration has measured the energy dependence of exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons off proton targets in ultra–peripheral p–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair 
TeV. The e
e
and 
decay channels are used to measure the cross section as a function of the rapidity of the in the range 
, corresponding to an energy in the 
p centre-of-mass in the interval 
GeV. The measurements, which are consistent with a power law dependence of the exclusive photoproduction cross section, are compared to previous results from HERA and the LHC and to several theoretical models. They are found to be compatible with previous measurements.
© CERN for the benefit of the ALICE collaboration, 2019
