# Exclusive J/$ψ$ photoproduction off protons in ultra-peripheral p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV

We present the first measurement at the LHC of exclusive J/$\psi$ photoproduction off protons, in ultra-peripheral proton-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV. Events are selected with a dimuon pair produced either in the rapidity interval, in the laboratory frame, $2.5< y< 4$ (p-Pb) or $-3.6< y< -2.6$ (Pb--p), and no other particles observed in the ALICE acceptance. The measured cross sections $\sigma (\gamma + {\rm p} \rightarrow J/\psi + {\rm p})$ are 33.2 $\pm$ 2.2 (stat) $\pm$ 3.1 (syst) $\pm$ 0.7 (theo) nb in p-Pb and 284 $\pm$ 36 (stat) $^{+27}_{-32}$ (syst) $\pm$ 26 (theo) nb in Pb-p collisions. We measure this process up to about 700 GeV in the $\gamma {\rm p}$ centre-of-mass, which is a factor of two larger than the highest energy studied at HERA. The data are consistent with a power law dependence of the $J/\psi$ photoproduction cross section in $\gamma {\rm p}$ energies from about 20 to 700 GeV, or equivalently, from Bjorken-$x$ between $\sim 2\times 10^{-2}$ to $\sim 2\times 10^{-5}$, thus indicating no significant change in the gluon density behaviour of the proton between HERA and LHC energies.

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## Figure 1

 Invariant mass distribution for events with two oppositely charged muons, for both forward (top panel) and backward (bottom panel) dimuon rapidity samples.

## Figure 2

 Transverse momentum distribution for events with two oppositely charged muons, for both forward (top panel) and backward (bottom panel) dimuon rapidity samples.

## Figure 3

 Exclusive $\jpsi$ photoproduction cross section off protons measured by ALICE and compared to HERA data. Comparisons to STARLIGHT, JMRT and the b-Sat models are shown. The power law fit to ALICE data is also shown.

## Figure 4

 The power law fit to ALICE data is compared to LHCb solutions.