Abstract
We study the phenomenology of fixed-target elastic [Formula presented] photoproduction in the nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism. Our goal is to test an essential feature of this formalism—the color-octet mechanism. We obtain an order-of-magnitude estimate for a certain linear combination of NRQCD color-octet matrix elements. Our estimate is consistent with other empirical determinations and with the [Formula presented]-scaling rules of NRQCD.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5844-5850 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)