[Submitted on 1 Jun 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Electroproduction of heavy vector mesons using holographic QCD: from near threshold to high energy regimes
Kiminad A. Mamo🇺🇸 · Ismail Zahed🇺🇸
We develop a non-perturbative analysis of the electro-production of heavy vector mesons (, ) from threshold to high energy. We use the holographic construction with bulk confinement enforced through a soft wall. Using Witten diagrams, we evaluate the pertinent cross sections for heavy vector mesons (, ) production and study their dependence on both the incoming virtual photon polarization as well as the outgoing polarization of the heavy meson. Our results for electro-production compares well with the available HERA data at low and intermediate , and for a wide range of momentum transfer. We also predict the quasi-real electro-production of near threshold.
- Comments:
- 30 pages (with two columns), 13 figures, extension of our work on photo-production arXiv:1910.04707 with overlapping appendix
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2106.00722 [pdf]