Photoproduction of vector mesons off nucleons near threshold

Nov, 1995
19 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 600 (1996) 477-490
e-Print:
Report number:
  • GSI-PREPRINT-95-68

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Abstract:
We propose a simple meson-exchange model of the photoproduction of ρ\rho- and ω\omega-mesons off protons near threshold (EγE_\gamma less than 2 GeV). This model provides a good description of the available data and implies a large ρ\rho-nucleon interaction in the scalar channel (σ\sigma-exchange). We use this phenomenological interaction to estimate the leading contribution to the self-energy of ρ\rho-mesons in matter. The implications of our calculation for experimental studies of the ρ\rho-meson mass in nuclei are discussed.
Note:
  • 14 pages, 11 Postscript figures, uses elsart.sty, epsfig.sty, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A Report-no: GSI 95-68
  • 13.60.L
  • Vector mesons
  • Photoproduction
  • photon nucleon: exclusive reaction
  • rho(770)0: photoproduction
  • photoproduction: rho(770)0
  • omega(783): photoproduction
  • photoproduction: omega(783)
  • threshold
  • scalar meson: exchange