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Exclusive production of $ϕ$ meson in the $γ^*\,p \to ϕ\,p$ reaction at large photon virtualities within $k_T$-factorization approach

A. D. Bolognino·A. Szczurek·W. Schäfer
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We apply the $k_T$-factorization approach to the production of $ϕ$ meson in deep-inelastic scattering. The helicity-conserving $γ^*(T,L) \to ϕ$ impact factor is calculated for longitudinal and transverse photon polarization using $ϕ$ meson distribution amplitudes. Different unintegrated gluon distributions are used in the calculations. The formalism for massless quarks/antiquarks gives too large transverse and longitudinal cross sections for photon virtualities below $Q^2\sim 8 \, \rm{GeV}^2$. We suggest how to improve the description of the HERA data by introducing effective strange quark masses into the formalism. We derive the corresponding massive impact factor by comparing to the light-cone wave function representation used in previous $k_T$-factorization calculations and the color-dipole approaches. As a byproduct we present expressions for higher twist-amplitudes as weighted integrals over the light-cone wave function. The quark mass $m_q \approx 0.5$ GeV allows to improve the description of both longitudinal and transverse cross section down to $Q^2 \sim$ 4 GeV$^2$. We present also the polarized cross section ratio $σ_L/σ_T$ and the behavior of the total cross section $σ_{tot} = σ_{L} + σ_{T}$ as a function of photon virtuality.

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A. D. Bolognino, A. Szczurek, W. Schäfer. 2019-12-13. Exclusive production of $ϕ$ meson in the $γ^*\,p \to ϕ\,p$ reaction at large photon virtualities within $k_T$-factorization approach. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.054041

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