Theory of Vector Meson Production

1995/06/20 by J. R. Forshaw, Forshaw, J. R.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9506373

9 pages Latex including 5 figures compressed as uuencoded file. Talk presented at DIS 95, Paris (April 1995)

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Abstract

I discuss the theoretical status of the `soft' pomeron and its place in describing generic diffractive processes. The role of perturbative QCD (pQCD) corrections is considered, in particular in the context of quasi-elastic vector meson production at high Q<sup>2</sup>. In those processes where short distances are dominant, the `hard' (pQCD) pomeron is expected to reveal itself, such a process may well be that of diffractive vector meson production at high-t and I discuss this.

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