A measurement of the t dependence of the helicity structure of diffractive rho meson electroproduction at HERA

C Adloff, V Andreev, B Andrieu, T Anthonis, V Arkadov, A Astvatsatourov, A Babaev, J Bahr, P Baranov, E Barrelet, W Bartel, J Becker, A Beglarian, O Behnke, C Beier, A Belousov, C Berger, T Berndt, JC Bizot, J BohmeV Boudry, W Braunschweig, V Brisson, HB Broker, DP Brown, W Bruckner, D Bruncko, J Burger, FW Busser, A Bunyatyan, A Burrage, G Buschhorn, L Bystritskaya, AJ Campbell, J Cao, S Caron, F Cassol-Brunner, D Clarke, B Clerbaux, C Collard, JG Contreras, YR Coppens, JA Coughlan, MC Cousinou, BE Cox, G Cozzika, J Cvach, JB Dainton, WD Dau, K Daum, Mattias Davidsson, B Delcourt, N Delerue, R Demirchyan, A De Roeck, EA De Wolf, C Diaconu, J Dingfelder, P Dixon, V Dodonov, JD Dowell, A Droutskoi, A Dubak, C Duprel, G Eckerlin, D Eckstein, V Efremenko, S Egli, R Eichler, F Eisele, E Eisenhandler, M Ellerbrock, E Elsen, M Erdmann, W Erdmann, PJW Faulkner, L Favart, A Fedotov, R Felst, J Ferencei, S Ferron, M Fleischer, YH Fleming, G Flugge, A Fomenko, I Foresti, J Formanek, G Franke, E Gabathuler, K Gabathuler, J Garvey, J Gassner, J Gayler, R Gerhards, C Gerlich, S Ghazaryan, L Goerlich, N Gogitidze, C Grab, V Grabski, H Grassler, T Greenshaw, G Grindhammer, T Hadig, D Haidt, L Hajduk, J Haller, WJ Haynes, B Heinemann, G Heinzelmann, RCW Henderson, S Hengstmann, H Henschel, R Heremans, G Herrera, I Herynek, M Hildebrandt, M Hilgers, KH Hiller, J Hladky, P Hoting, D Hoffmann, R Horisberger, A Hovhannisyan, S Hurling, M Ibbotson, C Issever, M Jacquet, M Jaffre, L Janauschek, X Janssen, V Jemanov, Leif Jönsson, C Johnson, DP Johnson, MAS Jones, Hannes Jung, D Kant, M Kapichine, Martin Karlsson, O Karschnick, F Keil, N Keller, J Kennedy, IR Kenyon, S Kermiche, C Kiesling, Pär Kjellberg, A Klein, C Kleinwort, T Kluge, G Knies, B Koblitz, SD Kolya, V Korbel, P Kostka, SK Kotelnikov, R Koutouev, A Koutov, H Krehbiel, J Kroseberg, K Kruger, A Kupper, T Kuhr, T Kurca, D Lamb, MPJ Landon, W Lange, T Lastovicka, P Laycock, E Lebailly, A Lebedev, B Leissner, R Lemrani, V Lendermann, S Levonian, Magnus Lindström, B List, E Lobodzinska, B Lobodzinski, A Loginov, N Loktionova, V Lubimov, S Luders, D Luke, L Lytkin, H Mahlke-Kruger, N Malden, E Malinovski, I Malinovski, R Maracek, P Marage, J Marks, R Marshall, HU Martyn, J Martyniak, SJ Maxfield, D Meer, A Mehta, K Meier, AB Meyer, H Meyer, J Meyer, PO Meyer, S Mikocki, D Milstead, T Mkrtchyan, R Mohr, S Mohrdieck, MN Mondragon, F Moreau, A Morozov, JV Morris, K Muller, P Murin, V Nagovizin, B Naroska, J Naumann, T Naumann, G Nellen, PR Newman, F Niebergall, C Niebuhr, O Nix, G Nowak, JE Olsson, D Ozerov, V Panassik, C Pascaud, GD Patel, M Peez, E Perez, JP Phillips, D Pitzl, R Poschl, I Potachnikova, B Povh, G Radel, J Rauschenberger, P Reimer, B Reisert, D Reyna, C Risler, E Rizvi, P Robmann, R Roosen, A Rostovtsev, S Rusakov, K Rybicki, DPC Sankey, S Schatzel, J Scheins, FP Schilling, P Schleper, D Schmidt, D Schmidt, S Schmidt, S Schmitt, M Schneider, L Schoeffel, A Schoning, T Schorner, V Schroder, HC Schultz-Coulon, C Schwanenberger, K Sedlak, F Sefkow, V Shekelyan, I Sheviakov, LN Shtarkov, Y Sirois, T Sloan, P Smirnov, Y Soloviev, D South, V Spaskov, A Specka, H Spitzer, R Stamen, B Stella, J Stiewe, U Straumann, M Swart, M Tasevsky, S Tchetchelnitski, G Thompson, PD Thompson, N Tobien, F Tomasz, D Traynor, P Truol, G Tsipolitis, I Tsurin, J Turnau, JE Turney, E Tzamariudaki, S Udluft, M Urban, A Usik, S Valkar, A Valkarova, C Vallee, P Van Mechelen, S Vassiliev, Y Vazdik, A Vichnevski, M Vorobiev, K Wacker, J Wagner, R Wallny, B Waugh, G Weber, M Weber, D Wegener, C Werner, M Werner, N Werner, M Wessels, G White, S Wiesand, T Wilksen, M Winde, GG Winter, C Wissing, M Wobisch, EE Woehrling, E Wunsch, AC Wyatt, J Zacek, J Zalesak, Z Zhang, A Zhokin, F Zomer, M zur Nedden

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Abstract

The helicity structure of the diffractive electroproduction of rho mesons, e + p --> e + rho + Y, is studied in a previously unexplored region of large four-momentum transfer squared at the proton vertex, t: 0 < t' < 3 GeV2, where t' = - min. The data used are collected with the HI detector at HERA in the kinematic domain 2.5 < Q(2) < 60 GeV2, 40 < W < 120 GeV No t dependence of the r(00)(04) spin density matrix element is found. A significant t dependent helicity non-conservation from the virtual photon to the rho meson is observed for the spin density matrix element combinations r(00)(5) + 2r(11)(5) and r(00)(1) + 2r(11)(1). These t dependences are consistently described by a perturbative QCD model based on the exchange of two gluons.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-39
JournalPhysics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume539
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002

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The record was previously connected to the following departments: Particle Physics (011013002), Chemical Physics (S) (011001060)

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