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How to measure the Pomeron phase in diffractive dipion photoproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The study of charge asymmetry of pions in the high-energy process gamma p -> pi+ pi- p (e p -> e pi+ pi- p) at very small dipion momenta offers a method to measure the phase of the forward hadronic (quasi)elastic amplitude gamma p -> rho p. We estimate potential of such measurements at HERA.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401180,
  title  = {How to measure the Pomeron phase in diffractive dipion photoproduction},
  author = {I. F. Ginzburg and I. P. Ivanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401180},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures; v4: more elaborate parametrizations of dipion spectra implemented, discussion extended