Abstract

The exclusive electroproduction of two pions in the mass range 0.4<Mππ<2.5 GeV has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb−1. The analysis was carried out in the kinematic range of 2<Q2<80 GeV2, 32<W<180 GeV and |t|<0.6 GeV2, where Q2 is the photon virtuality, W is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy and t is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The two-pion invariant-mass distribution is interpreted in terms of the pion electromagnetic form factor, |F(Mππ)|, assuming that the studied mass range includes the contributions of the ρ, ρ′ and ρ′′ vector-meson states. The masses and widths of the resonances were obtained and the Q2 dependence of the cross-section ratios σ(ρ′→ππ)/σ(ρ) and σ(ρ′′→ππ)/σ(ρ) was extracted. The pion form factor obtained in the present analysis is compared to that obtained in e+eπ+π.

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Exclusive electroproduction of two pions at HERA
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 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 
 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany 
 Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland 
 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland 
 Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India 
 University and INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy 
 INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy 
 Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia 
 Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, and INFN, Torino, Italy 
10  Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine; Department of Nuclear Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 
11  Department of Nuclear Physics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 
12  Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany 
13  Fakultät für Physik der Universität Freiburg i.Br., Freiburg i.Br., Germany 
14  Institute of Physics and Technology of Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan 
15  INFN Florence, Florence, Italy 
16  Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 
17  Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany 
18  INFN Padova, Padova, Italy 
19  Department of Physics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
20  Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine 
21  Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA 
22  Dipartimento di Fisica dell’ Università and INFN, Padova, Italy 
23  Physics Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 
24  Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 
25  School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 
26  Physics Department and INFN, Calabria University, Cosenza, Italy 
27  Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA 
28  The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland 
29  Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
30  Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada 
31  Università di Torino and INFN, Torino, Italy 
32  Dipartimento di Fisica, Università ‘La Sapienza’ and INFN, Rome, Italy 
33  Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 
34  Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany 
35  Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel 
36  Department of Engineering in Management and Finance, Univ. of the Aegean, Chios, Greece 
37  NIKHEF and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
38  Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan 
39  Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK 
40  Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 
41  Jabatan Fizik, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
42  Polytechnic University, Sagamihara, Japan 
43  Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 
44  Physics and Astronomy Department, University College London, London, UK 
45  Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea 
46  Institute of Experimental Physics, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany 
47  Department of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland 
48  High Energy Nuclear Physics Group, Imperial College London, London, UK 
49  Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
50  Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA 
51  H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 
52  Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan 
53  Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, Irvington on Hudson, NY, USA 
54  Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 
55  University and INFN Florence, Florence, Italy 
56  Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 
57  Center for High Energy Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea 
58  Faculty of General Education, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan 
Pages
1-12
Publication year
2012
Publication date
Jan 2012
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Springer Nature B.V.
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14346044
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14346052
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Scholarly Journal
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English
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2294059047
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