Vector Meson Dominance

Abstract

Historically vector-meson physics arose along two different paths to be reviewed in Sections 1 and 2. In Section 3, the phenomenological consequences will be discussed with an emphasis on those aspects of the subject matter relevant in present-day discussions on deep inelastic scattering in the diffraction region of low values of the Bjorken variable.

Comments: To appear in the proceedings of "PHOTON2005 International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon including the 16th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions", Warsaw, 2005