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Q(2) dependence of nuclear transparency for exclusive rho(0) production

Authors :
AIRAPETIAN, A
AKOPOV, N
AKOPOV, Z
Elschenbroich, U.
Hommez, B.
Ryckbosch, Dirk
Schnell, Gunar
Tytgat, Michael
van de Vyver, R.
Source :
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC, 2003.

Abstract

Exclusive coherent and incoherent electroproduction of the rho(0) meson from H-1 and N-14 targets has been studied at the HERMES experiment as a function of coherence length (l(c)), corresponding to the lifetime of hadronic fluctuations of the virtual photon, and squared four-momentum of the virtual photon (-Q(2)). The ratio of N-14 to H-1 cross sections per nucleon, called nuclear transparency, was found to increase (decrease) with increasing l(c) for coherent (incoherent) rho(0) electroproduction. For fixed l(c), a rise of nuclear transparency with Q(2) is observed for both coherent and incoherent rho(0) production, which is in agreement with theoretical calculations of color transparency.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00319007
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Accession number :
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