Quarks vs. gluons in exclusive rho electroproduction

Abstract

We compare the contributions from quark and from gluon exchange to the exclusive process gamma* p -> rho0 p. We present evidence that the gluon contribution is substantial for values of the Bjorken variable xB around 0.1.

7 pages, 3 figures. v2: clarification in section 3

References in corpus (2)

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (in "The Review of Particle Properties" 2004)
• Vector meson electroproduction at next-to-leading order

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