Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.63.065205

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

63

Issue

6

Pages

1-11

Abstract

We studied the exclusive reaction ep → e' p' ᵠ using the ᵠ →K+K- decay mode. The data were collected using a 4.2 GeV incident electron beam and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Our experiment covers the range in Q2 from 0.7 to 2.2 GeV2and W from 2.0 to 2.6 GeV. Taken together with all previous data, we find a consistent picture of ᵠ production on the proton. Our measurement shows the expected decrease of the t slope with the vector-meson formation time c Δ t below 2 fm. At c Δ t = 0.6 fm, we measure bɸ = 2.27 ± 0.42 GeV-2. The cross section dependence on W as W0.2 ±0.1 at Q2, 1.3 GeV2 was determined by comparison with ɸ production at HERA after correcting for threshold effects. This is the same dependence as observed in photoproduction.

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Original Publication Citation

Bektasoglu, M., Dodge, G.E., Hyde-Wright, C.E., Kuhn, S.E., Qin, L.M., Weinstein, L.B., et al., The CLAS Collaboration (2001). Exclusive electroproduction of ᵠ mesons at 4.2 GeV. Physical Review C, 63(6), 1-11, Article 065205. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.63.065205

ORCID

0000-0003-1582-2376 (Dodge), 0000-0001-7282-8120 (Hyde-Wright), 0000-0003-2243-6836 (Kuhn)

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