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- Ashman, J, et al.
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Exclusive ρ0 and Φ production in deep inelastic muon scattering
- 1988
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Ingår i: Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields. - New York, USA : Springer. - 0170-9739 .- 1431-5858. ; 39:2, s. 169-175
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Data are presented on exclusive ρ0 and φ{symbol} production in deep inelastic muon scattering from a target consisting mainly of nitrogen. The ratio of the total cross sections for ρ0 and φ{symbol} production is found to be 9:(1.6±0.4) at 〈Q2〉=7.5 GeV2, consistent with the SU(3) prediction of 9:2. The t dependence for exclusive ρ0 production is found to become shallover as Q2 increases and, for large Q2, the t dependence is typical of that for a hard scattering process. Furthermore, the ratio of the cross sections for coherent: incoherent production from nitrogen is found to decrease rapidly with Q2. Such behaviour indicates that even for exclusive vector meson production the virtual photon behaves predominantly as an electromagnetic probe.
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