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The possibility that the magnetic dipole moment (MDM) of light charged vector mesons could be measured from radiative processes involving the production (\tau \to \rho \nu \gamma) and decay(\rho \to \pi \pi \gamma) of vector mesons is…
Positivity constrains the allowed domain for sets of spin observables in exclusive or inclusive reactions. Examples are given for strangeness-echange reactions and photoproduction.
Spin observables in radiative neutron capture on a proton and its inverse process, photodisintegration of the deuteron are calculated using a pionless effective field theory with di-baryon fields. Good agreement with the results of existing…
An analysis of light vector meson photoproduction at small $x$ on the basis of the generalized parton distribution (GPD) approach is presented. Our results on the cross section and spin density matrix elements (SDME) are in fair agreement…
We discuss possible measurements and origins of single spin asymmetries in DIS and of some unusual spin properties of vector mesons produced in lepton- nucleon, photon-nucleon and photon-photon interactions. Such effects have already been…
Spin observables allow a deeper understanding of the nature of the underlying dynamics and positivity reduces substantially their allowed domains. We will present some new positivity constraints for spin observables and their implications…
We study light vector meson photoproduction at small $x$ on the basis of the generalized parton distribution (GPD). Our results on the cross section and spin density matrix elements (SDME) are in fair agreement with DESY experiments
The LEPS/SPring-8 experiment made a comprehensive measurement of the spin-density matrix elements for $\gamma p \to \phi p$, $\gamma d \to \phi p n$ and $\gamma d \to \phi d$ at forward production angles. A linearly polarized photon beam at…
High-statistics total cross sections for the vector meson photoproduction at the threshold: $\gamma p\to\omega p$ (from A2 at MAMI, ELPH, and CBELSA/TAPS), $\gamma p\to \phi p$ (from CLAS and LEPS), and $\gamma p\to J/\psi p$ (from GlueX)…
The differential cross sections and unpolarized spin-density matrix elements for the reaction $\gamma p\to p\omega$ were measured using the CBELSA/TAPS experiment for initial photon energies ranging from the reaction threshold to 2.5 GeV.…
We consider photoproduction of $\omega$ mesons off complex nuclei to study interactions of transversely and longitudinally polarized vector mesons with nucleons. Whereas the total cross section for interactions of the transversely polarized…
The polarization observables in phi meson photoproduction is studied to probe the strangeness content of the nucleon. In addition to the dominant diffractive production and the one-pion-exchange process, we take into account the direct…
Pion photoproduction is analyzed with the chiral Lagrangian. Partial-wave amplitudes are obtained by an analytic extrapolation of subthreshold reaction amplitudes computed in chiral perturbation theory, where the constraints set by…
General expressions for the unpolarized differential cross section and for various polarization observables in the coherent pseudoscalar meson photo- and electroproduction on the deuteron target have been obtained in one-photon-exchange…
The diffractive $\phi$-meson photoproduction amplitude is dominated by the Pomeron exchange process and contains the terms that govern the spin-spin and spin-orbital interactions. We show that these terms are responsible for the spin-flip…
It is shown that the recent results on photoproduction of vector mesons can be naturally explained by using a mass dependent pomeron trajectory.
A model based on Reggeon field theory is used for the description of the photo- and electroproduction of vector mesons ($\rho^0, \omega, \phi, J /\psi$) on the proton. Its main feature is the dependence of the Pomeron intercept on the…
Using J/psi and open charm photoproduction data, we apply the vector meson dominance model to obtain constraints on the energy dependence of the inelastic J/psi-nucleon cross section. Predictions of short distance QCD are in accord with…
Spin correlations between top-quark and anti-top-quark in pair production are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model. A complete set of observables, that can be used to measure all independent parameters of the production spin…
We consider hard leptoproduction of a photon on a spin-one target and give the general azimuthal angular dependence of the differential cross section. Furthermore, we estimate the beam spin asymmetry for an unpolarized deuteron target at…