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Q(2) dependence of nuclear transparency for exclusive rho(0) production
- Source :
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC, 2003.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Nuclear Theory
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Science General
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00319007
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
- Accession number :
- edsair.od.......330..f2f699dbccbbc092107460c1f2064e9f