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Diffractive electroproduction of rho meson excitations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We use perturbative QCD and parton-hadron duality to estimate the cross sections for the diffractive electroproduction of rhoprime(1-) and rho(3-) resonances which occur in the 1.3-1.8 GeV mass interval. We present the cross sections and the ratios sigma_L/sigma_T as a function of Q^2. We compare the predictions with those for the diffractive electroproduction of rho mesons. We show how such diffractive electroproduction measurements at HERA can probe features of the perturbative QCD 'Pomeron'.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9701366,
  title  = {Diffractive electroproduction of rho meson excitations},
  author = {A. D. Martin and M. G. Ryskin and T. Teubner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9701366},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 8 pages, 3 PostScript figures (uses epsf). The complete paper, including figures, is also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://cpt1.dur.ac.uk/pub/preprints/dtp97/dtp9706/

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