Exclusive meson production at HERMES

The exclusive electroproduction of pseudoscalar and vector mesons was studied with the HERMES spectrometer at the DESY laboratory by scattering 27.6 GeV positron and electron beams off a transversely polarized hydrogen target.The results are compared to calculations based on generalized parton distributions,some of which are sensitive to the contribution of the total angular momentum of the quarks to the proton spin.     

Exclusive meson production at HERMES

The exclusive electroproduction of pseudoscalar and vector mesons was studied with the HERMES spectrometer at the DESY laboratory by scattering 27.6 GeV positron and electron beams off a transversely polarized hydrogen target.The results are compared to calculations based on generalized parton distributions,some of which are sensitive to the contribution of the total angular momentum of the quarks to the proton spin.     

Exclusive production of charmed-meson pairs

It is shown that data of the BELLE Collaboration on the exclusive production of charmedmeson pairs via the one-photon mechanism of e⁺e^? annihilation can be adequately described within the constituent quark model. It is also shown that the cross section for the central production of two D mesons in the process \(e^ + e^ - \to e^ + e^ - \gamma \gamma \to e^ + e^ - D\bar D + X\) is commensurate with the cross section for their production in one-photon annihilation.     

Exclusive meson production at HERMES

Hard exclusive production of mesons in deep-inelastic scattering allows one to probe the so-far unknown Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon. The HERMES experiment has measured several different observables in exclusive meson production by scattering the 27.6GeV HERA lepton beam off an internal fixed gaseous target. Recent results on exclusive π ⁺, ρ ⁰ and pion pair production will be presented.     

Exclusive \eta production in pp reactions

Angular distributions for the exclusive reaction observed via the decay channel have been measured at GeV, 2.50 GeV and 2.85 GeV (excess energies Q = 324 MeV, 412 MeV and 554 MeV). The polar angle of the shows an anisotropy with respect to the beam direction for the lowest energy, which vanishes for the higher energies. The anisotropy of the pp polar angle increases slightly with the beam energy.Received: 30 September 2002, Published online: 22 October 2003PACS: 13.75.Cs Nucleon-nucleon interactions (including antinucleons, deuterons, etc.) - 14.40.Aq , K, and mesons - 25.40.Ve Other reactions above meson production thresholds (energies > 400 MeV)Y. Bedfer: Present address: DAPNIA/SPhN, CEA Saclay, France.A. Brenschede: Present address: Syngenio AG, StuttgartF. Brochard: Present address: LPHNHE, Ecole Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau, France.Seonho Choi: Present address: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.R. Dressler: Present address: Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, CH-5232.J. Foryciarz: Present address: Motorola Polska Software Center, Kraków, Poland.H.-W. Pfaff: Present address: d-fine GmbH, Eschborn.     

Exclusive decuplet-baryon pair production in two-photon collisions

This work extends our previous studies of two-photon annihilation into baryon-antibaryon pairs from spin-1/2 octet to spin-3/2 decuplet baryons. Our approach is based on perturbative QCD and treats baryons as quark-diquark systems. Using the same model parameters as in our previous work, supplemented by QCD sum-rule results for decuplet baryon wave functions, we are able to give absolute predictions for decuplet baryon cross sections without introducing new parameters. We find that the cross section is of the same order of magnitude as the proton cross section, well within experimental bounds.Received: 11 November 2004, Published online: 11 January 2005C.F. Berger: Work supported in part by the Department of Energy, contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.     

Exclusive processes of charmonium production and charmonium wave functions

Results obtained by studying the properties of the leading-twist wave functions for the S- and P-wave states of charmonia are presented. Wave-function models that can be used to calculate various processes involving the production of these mesons were constructed on the basis of these investigations. Calculations for some exclusive processes of charmonium production were performed within the models in question.     

Exclusive double diffractive Higgs boson production at LHC

Exclusive double diffractive (EDD) Higgs boson production is analyzed in the framework of the Regge-eikonal approach. Total and differential cross-sections for the process are calculated. Experimental possibilities to find the Higgs boson at LHC are discussed.Received: 5 November 2003, Revised: 16 April 2004, Published online: 30 July 2004 Correspondence to and send offprint requests to: R.A. Ryutin     

Parton distributions and the LHC: W and Z production

W and Z bosons will be produced copiously at the LHC proton-proton collider. We study the parton distribution dependence of the total production cross sections and rapidity distributions, paying particular attention to the uncertainties arising from uncertainties in the parton distributions themselves. Variations in the gluon, the strong coupling, the sea quarks and the overall normalisation are shown to lead to small but non-negligible variations in the cross section predictions. Ultimately, therefore, the measurement of these cross sections will provide a powerful cross check on our knowledge of parton distributions and their evolution. Received: 23 November 1999 / Published online: 6 April 2000