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Publication Date

1-1-2000

Abstract

The cross section for φ meson photoproduction on the proton has been measured for the first time up to a four-momentum transfer −t=4GeV2, using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. At low four-momentum transfer, the differential cross section is well described by Pomeron exchange. At large four-momentum transfer, above −t=1.8GeV2, the data support a model where the Pomeron is resolved into its simplest component, two gluons, which may couple to any quark in the proton and in the φ.

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Copyright American Physical Society Publisher final version available at http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v85/i22/p4682_1

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Published Citation

E. Anciant et al. [CLAS Collaboration], "Photoproduction of φ(1020) mesons on the proton at large momentum transfer", Physical Review Letters 85.22 (2000) DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4682

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4682

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