H1prelim-05-071

Diffractive Elastic J/psi Production at HERA in Photoproduction and Electroproduction

Reference Preliminary results expected for DIS2005, Spring 2005
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Contact P. Fleischmann, L. Janauschek, B. Naroska, C. Kiesling
Abstract Cross sections for diffractive elastic production of J/psi mesons in photoproduction and electroproduction are presented. The dependence on the photon virtuality Q^2 is measured for Q^2 < 80 GeV^2. The dependence on the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy W is analysed in the range 40 GeV < W < 305 GeV in photoproduction and 40 GeV < W < 160 GeV in electroproduction. The differential cross section dsigma/dt for J/psi mesons is derived and its dependence on W and Q^2 analysed. The assumption of s-channel helicity conservation is studied analysing the decay angular distributions. Models based on perturbative QCD are compared to the data.
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