Rho meson photoproduction at low energies

Details Rho meson photoproduction at low energies Rho meson photoproduction at low energies

2003-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0306033v3

Phys.Rev. C69 (2004) 025201

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

27 pages, REVTeX, 10 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.69.025201

The $\sigma$-exchange and $f_2$-exchange mechanisms for $\rho$ meson photoproduction are re-examined. Then the commonly employed $\sigma$-exchange amplitude is revised by using the recent information from the analyses on the $\rho \to \pi^0\pi^0\gamma$ decay and the $\sigma NN$ coupling constant from Bonn potential. Instead of relying on the Pomeron-$f$ proportionality assumption, the $f_2$ meson exchange amplitude is established from an effective Lagrangian which is constructed from the tensor structure of the $f_2$ meson. Phenomenological information together with tensor meson dominance and vector meson dominance assumptions are used to estimate the $f_2$ coupling constants. As a first step to improve the current theoretical models, we have also explored the effects due to the un-correlated $2\pi$ exchange amplitude with $\pi N$ intermediate state. This leading-order $2\pi$ exchange amplitude can be calculated using the coupling constants determined from the study of pion photoproduction and the empirical width of $\rho \to \pi\pi$ decay. In comparing with the existing differential cross section data, we find that a model with the constructed $2\pi$, $\sigma$, and $f_2$ exchanges is comparable to the commonly used $\sigma$ exchange model in which the $\sigma$ coupling parameters are simply adjusted to fit the experimental data. We suggest that experimental verifications of the predicted single and double spin asymmetries in the small $|t|$ ($ < 2$ GeV$^2$) region will be useful for distinguishing the two models and improving our understanding of the non-resonant amplitude of $\rho$ photoproduction. Possible further improvements of the model are discussed.

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