arXiv:hep-ph/9909557·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Nuclear-Medium Modification of the Rho(1S)- and Rhoprim(2S)-Mesons in Coherent Photo- and Electroproduction: Coupled Channel Analysis
N.N. Nikolaev (IKP, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany and L.D.Landau Institute, Chernogolovka, Russia)🇩🇪 · J. Speth (IKP, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)🇩🇪 · B.G. Zakharov (L.D.Landau Institute, Chernogolovka, Russia)🇷🇺
Abstract
We study medium modifications of the dilepton mass spectrum in coherent photo- and electroproduction of the Rho(1S)- and Rhoprim(2S)-meson resonances on nuclear targets. The analysis is performed within the coupled Rho, Rhoprim... channel formalism in which nuclear modifications derive from the off-diagonal rescatterings. We find that the effect of off-diagonal rescatterings on the shape of the dilepton mass spectrum in the Rho(1S)-meson mass region is only marginal but is very important in the Rhoprim mass region. The main off-diagonal contribution in the Rhoprim mass region comes from the sequential mechanism gamma* -> Rho -> Rhoprim(2S), which dominates the Rhoprim(2S) production for heavy nuclei. Our results show also that in the Rhoprim(2S) mass region there is a considerable effect of the interference of the Breit-Wigner tail of Rho(1S)-meson with the Rhoprim-meson.
Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures