11th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Photonuclear reaction is induced by the strong electromagnetic field generated by ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. This process has been extensively studied in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC). Photoproduced quarkonia are used to probe the nuclear gluon distributions at low Bjorken-$x$. In recent years, the coherent photoproduction of the J/$\psi$ vector meson has also been observed in A-A collisions with nuclear overlap. This observation raises several theoretical challenges, such as the survival of the coherence condition for a nucleus broken during the hadronic interaction or the possible interaction of the produced J/$\psi$ vector meson with a fast-expanding quark-gluon plasma medium. In this presentation, measurements of coherent J/$\psi$ photoproduction cross sections in Pb-Pb collisions for the 40-90$\mathrm{\%}$ centrality range, measured by ALICE at midrapidity in the dielectron channel will be presented. In peripheral collisions, the $p_{\mathrm{T}}$-differential cross section is extracted for the first time at midrapidity. Final published results on coherent J/$\psi$ photoproduction cross sections at forward rapidity in the dimuon decay channel in the 10-90$\mathrm{\%}$ centrality range will also be shown. Finally, the status of the new rapidity-differential measurement of coherently photoproduced J/$\psi$ at forward rapidity in the centrality range 70-90$\mathrm{\%}$ will be discussed. Results will be compared with available theoretical models.