Coherence Effects in Diffractive Electroproduction of rho Mesons from Nuclei
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
A systematic multiple scattering formalism for vector meson electroproduction from nuclei is developed, with emphasis on the formation, propagation and hadronization scales for quark-gluon fluctuations of the virtual high-energy photon. The theory is compared to HERMES measurements of rho electroproduction on 14N. The nuclear transparency as a function of the vector meson propagation length is well reproduced.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0008109,
title = {Coherence Effects in Diffractive Electroproduction of rho Mesons from Nuclei},
author = {T. Renk and G. Piller and W. Weise},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0008109},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A