Hard diffractive electroproduction of vector mesons in QCD

Abstract

Hard diffractive electroproduction of longitudinally polarized vector mesons is calculated within the leading ${\alpha }_s\ln \frac{Q^2}{{\Lambda }_{QCD}^2}$ approximation of QCD using the leading order parton densities within the nucleon. Novel QCD features of the production of excited states and of the restoration of flavor symmetry are analyzed. At the onset of the asymptotic regime, our analysis finds an important role of quark Fermi motion within the diffractively produced vector mesons, and we suggest to use this effect to measure the high momentum tail of the wave function of the vector mesons. We deduce a kinematical boundary for the region of applicability of the decomposition of the hard amplitudes over powers of $Q^2$ and/or a limit on the increase of the cross sections of hard processes at small $x$, and briefly analyze its consequences. We also estimate the nuclear attenuation of the diffractive electroproduction of vector mesons and compare with estimates of the shadowing of the longitudinal structure function.

64 pages, REVTeX, 16 figures optionally included using epsfig.sty, Revisions in regards to Charmonium photo- and electroproduction, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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