Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1995-09-17
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 3194-3215
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
64 pages, REVTeX, 16 figures optionally included using epsfig.sty, Revisions in regards to Charmonium photo- and electroproduc
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.3194
Hard diffractive electroproduction of longitudinally polarized vector mesons is calculated within the leading $\alpha_s\ln{Q^2\over\Lambda_{QCD}^2}$ approximation of QCD using the leading order parton densities within the nucleon. Novel QCD features of the production of excited states and of the restoration of flavor symmetry are analyzed. At the onset of the asymptotic regime, our analysis finds an important role of quark Fermi motion within the diffractively produced vector mesons, and we suggest to use this effect to measure the high momentum tail of the wave function of the vector mesons. We deduce a kinematical boundary for the region of applicability of the decomposition of the hard amplitudes over powers of $Q^2$ and/or a limit on the increase of the cross sections of hard processes at small $x$, and briefly analyze its consequences. We also estimate the nuclear attenuation of the diffractive electroproduction of vector mesons and compare with estimates of the shadowing of the longitudinal structure function.
Frankfurt Leonid L.
Koepf Wolfram
Strikman Mark
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