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High-energy photoproduction of rho and phi vector mesons

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6510183· OSTI ID:6510183
We have studied the photoproduction of rho and phi vector mesons from hydrogen in the Fermilab broad band neutral beam. Forward going two particle final states were detected in a multiparticle spectrometer consisting of two analyzing magnets, a multiwire-proportional-chamber tracking system and a particle identification system. Recoil protons and target fragments were observed in a recoil detector which surrounded the target. The total elastic cross-sections were measured to be independent of energy at the 10% level from 35 to 225 GeV at 10.6 ..mu..b for the rho and from 35 to 165 GeV at 0.64 ..mu..b for the phi. The elastic differential cross-sections were also measured. Approximately 20% of the diffractive rho and phi events were found to be inelastic from an analysis of the recoil detector. The t-dependence of the fraction of diffractive events which are inelastic for both the phi and the psi are consistent with a universal function determined from the rho data.
Research Organization:
Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ER01195
OSTI ID:
6510183
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/01195-474; COO-1195-474; ON: DE83007418
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English