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Diffractive $\rho$ and $\phi$ production at HERA using an AdS/QCD holographic light-front meson wavefunction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-19 v2

Abstract

We use an anti-de Sitter/Quantum Chromodynamics (AdS/QCD) holographic light-front wavefunction for the ρ\rho and ϕ\phi mesons, in conjunction with the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) dipole cross-section whose parameters are fitted to the most recent 2015 high precision HERA data on inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS), in order to predict the cross-sections for diffractive ρ\rho and ϕ\phi electroproduction. Our results suggest that the holographic meson light-front wavefunction is able to give a simultaneous description of the ρ\rho and ϕ\phi production data provided we use a set of light quark masses with mu,dm_{u,d} < msm_{s} ~ 0.14 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.1605.07665,
  title  = {Diffractive $\rho$ and $\phi$ production at HERA using an AdS/QCD holographic light-front meson wavefunction},
  author = {Mohammad Ahmady and Ruben Sandapen and Neetika Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07665},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

27 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. References updated. Minor corrections to improve presentation. Conclusions and plots unchanged. Matches PRD version

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