Abstract
Measurements of the cross section for exclusive virtual-photoproduction of rho (0) mesons from hydrogen are reported. The data were collected by the HERMES experiment using 27.5 GeV positrons incident on a hydrogen gas target in the HERA storage ring. The invariant mass W of the photon-nucleon system ranges from 4.0 to 6.0 GeV, while the negative squared four-momentum Q(2) Of the virtual photon varies from 0.7 to 5.0 GeV2. The present data together with roost of the previous data in the intermediate W-domain are well described by a model that infers the W-dependence of the cross section from the dependence on the Bjorken scaling variables of the unpolarized structure function for deep-inelastic scattering. In addition, a model calculation based on OR-Forward Parton Distributions gives a fairly good account of the longitudinal component of the rho (0) production cross section for Q(2) > 2 GeV2.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 389-398 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | European Physical Journal C |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- NONFORWARD PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS
- VECTOR-MESONS
- DIFFRACTIVE PRODUCTION
- PHI ELECTROPRODUCTION
- COMPTON-SCATTERING
- NUCLEON
- RHO(0)
- HERA
- PHYSICS
- QCD
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