Related papers: Exclusive processes in electron - ion collisions
Experiments at CEBAF will scan the intermediate-energy region of the QCD dynamics for the nucleon form factors and for Compton Scattering. These experiments will definitely clarify the role of resummed perturbation theory and of…
In this article, we study the fully differential observables of exclusive production of heavy (charm and bottom) quark pairs in high-energy ultraperipheral $pA$ and $AA$ collisions. In these processes, the nucleus $A$ serves as an efficient…
The natural interpretation of deep inelastic scattering is in terms of hard scattering on QCD constituents of the target. We examine the relation between amplitudes measured in exclusive lepto-production and the quark content of the…
We have completed the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections to the virtual-photon exclusive differential cross sections for heavy quark production in deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering, i.e. $e + P \rightarrow Q +…
We explore the feasibility to study exclusive meson production (EMP) in hard muon-proton scattering at the COMPASS experiment. These measurements constrain the off-forward parton distributions (OFPD's) of the proton, which are related to…
The goal of the comprehensive program in Deeply Virtual Exclusive Scattering at Jefferson Laboratory is to create transverse spatial images of quarks and gluons as a function of their longitudinal momentum fraction in the proton, the…
We analyze electroproduction of light vector mesons at small Bjorken-x in an approach that includes the gluonic generalized parton distributions and a partonic subprocess, gamma g --> (q q-bar) g, q q-bar --> V. The subprocess is calculated…
An extended study of exclusive vector meson production in e,p interactions has been performed by the H1 and the ZEUS collaborations at the HERA collider. Recent measurements are reported and discussed within the framework of the dipole…
Double deeply virtual Compton scattering (DDVCS) is the process where an electron scatters off a nucleon and produces a lepton pair. The main advantage of this process in contrast with deeply virtual and timelike Compton scatterings (DVCS…
This paper is devoted to consideration of the hard exclusive processes $e^+e^- \to VP$, where $V=\rho,\phi; P=\eta,\eta'$. Experimental measurement of the cross section of the process $e^+ e^- \to \phi\eta$ at BaBar collaboration at large…
Exclusive electroproduction of vector mesons is a crucial way to probe QCD factorization properties. Such a factorization is up to now only proven, at the twist 2 level, for a longitudinaly polarized meson. It is crucial to extend our…
We discuss the central exclusive production of $f_{1}$ mesons in proton-proton collisions. The diffractive pomeron-pomeron fusion process within the tensor-pomeron approach is considered. Two ways to construct the pomeron-pomeron-$f_{1}$…
We calculate the cross sections for both electromagnetic and diffractive dissociation of protons for semiexclusive production of $J/\psi$ mesons in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Several differential distributions in missing mass…
The proton is composed of quarks and gluons, bound by the most elusive mechanism of strong interaction called confinement. In this work, the dynamics of quarks and gluons are investigated using deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS):…
Central exclusive production (CEP) processes in high-energy hadron collisions offer a very promising framework for studying both novel aspects of QCD and new physics signals. We report on the results of a theoretical study of the CEP of…
The exclusive processes $e^+e^-\to VP$, in the region of which the final state meson momentum is much larger than the hadronic scale $\Lambda_{QCD}$, are studied in the framework of PQCD approach based on the $k_T$ factorization. Including…
The spin and flavor symmetries of the heavy quark effective theory are employed to discuss the exclusive cross sections for pair production of heavy mesons in photon-photon collision. The ratios of the exclusive cross sections for heavy…
We present a Machine Learning based approach to the cross section and asymmetries for deeply virtual Compton scattering from an unpolarized proton target using both an unpolarized and polarized electron beam. Machine learning methods are…
We calculate the cross section for forward $\mathrm{J}/\psi$ production in proton-proton and minimum bias proton-lead collisions using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) and Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) formalism consistently with Deep…
The exclusive production of $\rho^0$ mesons in deep inelastic electron-proton scattering has been studied using the ZEUS detector. Cross sections have been measured in the range $7 < Q^2 < 25$ GeV$^2$ for $\gamma^*p$ centre of mass (c.m.)…