[Submitted on 24 Jun 2021] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Higher-order corrections to exclusive heavy vector meson production
Tuomas Lappi🇫🇮 · Heikki Mäntysaari🇫🇮 · Jani Penttala🇫🇮
We present results for higher-order corrections to exclusive production. This includes the first relativistic correction of order in quark velocity, and next-to-leading order corrections in for longitudinally polarized production. The relativistic corrections are found to be important for a good description of the HERA data, especially at small values of the photon virtuality. The next-to-leading order results for longitudinal production are evaluated numerically. We also demonstrate how the vector meson production provides complementary information to the structure functions for extracting the initial condition for the small- evolution of the dipole-proton scattering amplitude.
- Comments:
- Submission to SciPost, 6 pages, 2 figures
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 2106.12825 [pdf]