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Diquark Substructure in $\phi$ Photoproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-09 v2

Abstract

Observed enhancements in the forward and backward directions for ϕ\phi meson photoproduction off nucleons are shown to be explainable by the production of a nonresonant recoiling (su)(su) diquark, (sˉud)(\bar s ud) triquark pair. We show that the necessity of maintaining approximate collinearity of the quarks within these units constrains configurations with the minimum momentum transfer, and hence maximal amplitudes, to lie preferentially along the reaction axis.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01412,
  title  = {Diquark Substructure in $\phi$ Photoproduction},
  author = {Richard F. Lebed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01412},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 eps figures, REVTeX. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. D. Clarifications and additional references added

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