Experimental Results on the Diffractive Production of Light Vector Mesons at HERA

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2001-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0110040v1

J.Phys.G28:1103-1112,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

Contributed to the proceedings of the Ringberg Workshop on New Trends in HERA Physics 2001, 17-22 June 2001, Ringberg Castle,

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/28/5/330

We discuss results on the diffractive production of the vector mesons rho, phi and omega reported by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA. Unique to such studies is the experimental accessibility to the polarization of the vector mesons and hence to the spin-density matrix elements arising in vacuum-exchange processes. We emphasize the relation between the observed dependence on momentum transfer and the polarization state of the vector meson. The diffractive nature of the production mechanism is investigated via extraction of the Pomeron trajectory at high Q^2. Flavor symmetry is observed in the phi/rho ratios in the same region of momentum transfer where the power-law scaling becomes similar. The multivariable helicity analyses impose stringent constraints on models for the vacuum-exchange production mechanism. Semi-exclusive photoproduction of transverse rho and phi mesons at momentum transfers far exceeding their mass scale exhibit a hard scaling behavior which appears to violate the QCD helicity selection rules in a two-gluon exchange model.

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