Exclusive rho(0) electroproduction on transversely polarized protons

Airapetian, A. and Akopov, N. and Akopov, Z. and Aschenauer, E. C. and Augustyniak, W. and Avetissian, A. and Avetisyan, E. and Ball, B. and Bianchi, N. and Blok, H. P. and Boettcher, H. and Bonomo, C. and Borissov, A. and Bryzgalov, V. and Burns, J. and Capiluppi, M. and Capitani, G. P. and Cisbani, E. and Ciullo, G. and Contalbrigo, M. and Dalpiaz, P. F. and Deconinck, W. and De Leo, R. and De Nardo, L. and De Sanctis, E. and Diefenthaler, M. and Di Nezza, P. and Dreschler, J. and Dueren, M. and Ehrenfried, M. and Elbakian, G. and Ellinghaus, F. and Fabbri, R. and Fantoni, A. and Fellawka, L. and Frullani, S. and Gabbert, D. and Gapienko, G. and Gapienko, V. and Gharibyan, V. and Giordano, F. and Gliske, S. and Hadjidakis, C. and Hartig, M. and Hasch, D. and Hill, G. and Hillenbrand, A. and Hoek, M. and Holler, Y. and Hristova, I. and Imazu, Y. and Ivanilov, A. and Jackson, H. E. and Jo, H. S. and Joosten, S. and Kaiser, R. and Keri, T. and Kinney, E. and Kisselev, A. and Kobayashi, N. and Korotkov, V. and Kravchenko, P. and Lagamba, L. and Lamb, R. and Lapikas, L. and Lehmann, I. and Lenisa, P. and Linden-Levy, L. A. and Ruiz, A. Lopez and Lorenzon, W. and Lu, X-G. and Lu, X-R. and Ma, B. -Q. and Mahon, D. and Makins, N. C. R. and Manaenkov, S. I. and Manfre, L. and Mao, Y. and Marianski, B. and de la Ossa, A. Martinez and Marukyan, H. and Miller, C. A. and Miyachi, Y. and Movsisyan, A. and Muccifora, V. and Murray, M. and Mussgiller, A. and Nappi, E. and Naryshkin, Y. and Nass, A. and Nowak, W. -D. and Pappalardo, L. L. and Perez-Benito, R. and Reimer, P. E. and Reolon, A. R. and Riedl, C. and Rith, K. and Rosner, G. and Rostomyan, A. and Rubin, J. and Ryckbosch, D. and Salomatin, Y. and Sanftl, F. and Schaefer, A. and Schnell, G. and Schueler, K. P. and Seitz, B. and Shibata, T-A. and Shutov, V. and Stancari, M. and Statera, M. and Steffens, E. and Steijger, J. J. M. and Stenzel, H. and Stewart, J. and Stinzing, F. and Taroian, S. and Terkulov, A. and Trzcinski, A. and Tytgat, M. and Vandenbroucke, A. and van der Nat, P. B. and Van Haarlem, Y. and Van Hulse, C. and Varanda, M. and Veretennikov, D. and Vikhrov, V. and Vilardi, I. and Vogel, C. and Wang, S. and Yaschenko, S. and Ye, H. and Ye, Z. and Yen, S. and Yu, W. and Zeiler, D. and Zihlmann, B. and Zupranski, P. (2009) Exclusive rho(0) electroproduction on transversely polarized protons. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 679 (2). pp. 100-105. ISSN 0370-2693,

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Abstract

The exclusive electroproduction of rho(0) 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. Spin density matrix elements for this process were determined from the measured production- and decay-angle distributions of the rho(0) mesons. These matrix elements embody information on helicity transfer and the validity of s-channel helicity conservation in the case of a transversely polarized target. From the spin density matrix elements, the leading-twist term in the single-spin asymmetry was Calculated separately for longitudinally and transversely polarized rho(0) mesons. Neglecting s-channel helicity changing matrix elements, results for the former can be compared to calculations based on generalized parton distributions, which are sensitive to the contribution of the total angular momentum of the quarks to the proton spin. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS; VIRTUAL COMPTON-SCATTERING; VECTOR-MESON PRODUCTION; HERMES; NUCLEON; TARGET; QCD;
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Schäfer > Group Andreas Schäfer
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 09 Sep 2020 09:18
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2020 09:18
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/28565

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