Jun 22 – 26, 2026
Stony Brook University/Online
America/New_York timezone

Probing the Nucleon’s Gravitational structure through Near-Threshold heavy quarkonium photoproduction at JLab

Jun 23, 2026, 4:55 PM
20m
CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building (Stony Brook University/Online)

CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building

Stony Brook University/Online

GPDs, TMDs, and Nucleon Tomography GPDs, Fragmentation, and Gravitational Structure

Speaker

Bheemsehan Gurjar (University of Science and Technology of China)

Description

The near-threshold photo- and electroproduction of heavy vector quarkonia off the proton offers a unique probe of its gluonic structure. In particular, the $J/\psi$ photoproduction cross section close to threshold is directly sensitive to the proton’s gluon gravitational form factors (GFFs). In this work, we employ the generalized parton distribution framework, combined with gluon GFFs computed in a light-front gluon-spectator model inspired by soft-wall AdS/QCD, to predict the differential and total cross sections for near-threshold $J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ photoproduction. I will present our results and compare them with measurements from the $J/\psi$-007 experiment and the GlueX Collaboration at Jefferson Lab.

Author

Bheemsehan Gurjar (University of Science and Technology of China)

Co-authors

Ms Amrita Sain (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou) Chandan Mondal (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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