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It is shown that the universality of the initial and final state interactions responsible for the transition between the on-- and off--mass shell states leads to the energy independence of the ratio of exclusive $\rho$ electroproduction…
An overview of recent results from the H1 and ZEUS collaborations on vector meson production in electron-proton collisions at HERA is given. For diffractive vector meson production the energy dependence is discussed. The dependences on…
The energy dependence of cross sections is discussed as a way to learn about the dynamics of photon induced interactions at HERA. The question of determining the scale of exclusive electroproduction of vector mesons is addressed.
We discuss recent HERA results on vector--meson electroproduction gamma*p -> Vp and demonstrate that universality of the initial and final state interactions responsible for the transition between the on- and off-mass shell states allows to…
We demonstrate that the explicit mass dependence of the exponent in the power--like energy behavior of the vector--meson production cross-section in the processes of virtual photon interactions with a proton gamma^*p --> Vp obtained in the…
A compilation of H1 and ZEUS cross section measurements for elastic vector meson production is presented as a function of the scale $K^2 = (Q^2+M_V^2)/4$, where Q^2 is the exchanged photon virtuality and M_V is the mass of the vector meson.…
The energy dependence of the cross section for exclusive electroproduction of vector mesons is discussed as a way to learn about the interplay of soft and hard interactions. The question of determining the scale of these processes is…
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…
The energy dependence of the total photon-proton cross-section is determined from data collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA with two different proton beam energies.
The first five years of operation of the multi-purpose experiments ZEUS and H1 at the electron-proton storage ring facility HERA have opened a new era in the study of vector-meson production in high-energy photon-proton interactions. The…
At the HERA collider the experiments H1 and ZEUS have studied the exclusive production of vector mesons over a wide kinematical range. A selection of recent measurements of the cross sections has been presented at Moriond QCD 2003.
Exclusive electroproduction of $\phi$ mesons has been studied in $e^\pm p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=318 \gev$ with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 65.1 pb$^{-1}$. The $\gamma^*p$ cross section is presented in the…
We show that the lowest-order QCD calculation in a simple model of elastic vector-meson production does reproduce correctly the ratios of cross sections for rho, phi and J/psi, both in photoproduction and in high-Q2 quasi-elastic…
Exclusive rho0 electroproduction at HERA has been studied with the ZEUS detector, using 120 pb{-1} integrated luminosity, in the kinematic range of photon virtuality of 2 < Q2 < 160 GeV2, and gamma* p center-of-mass energy of 32 < W < 180…
Inelastic and elastic (exclusive) cross section measurements of vector meson production at HERA are discussed.
Results on elastic vector meson production at HERA are presented in the framework of perturbative QCD. The energy dependence of the cross section for J/Psi photoproduction and for rho electroproduction is studied. A full polarisation…
The exclusive photoproduction reaction gamma p -> Upsilon(1S) p has been studied with the ZEUS detector in ep collisions at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 468 pb^-1. The measurement covers the kinematic range 60<W<220 GeV and Q^2<1…
The H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA report new data on the diffractive production of vector mesons with a many-fold increase of luminosity compared to previous measurements. The new data include photoproduction and electroproduction of…
Selected recent results from the H1 and ZEUS experiments are reviewed, illustrating some of the many facets of ``meson physics'' at the HERA ep collider. The results cover exclusive elastic and proton-dissociative diffractive vector meson…
We predict the dependence on energy of photo(electro) production processes: $\gamma(\gamma^*)+p\to V+ X$ with large rapidity gap at small x and large momentum $-t$ transferred to $V$ in pQCD. Here V is a heavy quarkonium ($J/\psi,…