Ratios of helicity amplitudes for exclusive rho(0) electroproduction

Airapetian, A.; Akopov, N.; Akopov, Z.; Aschenauer, E. C.; Augustyniak, W.; Avakian, R.; Avetissian, A.; Avetisyan, E.; Belostotski, S.; Bianchi, N.; Blok, H. P.; Borissov, A.; Bowles, J.; Bryzgalov, V.; Burns, J.; Capiluppi, Marco; Capitani, G. P.; Cisbani, E.; Ciullo, Giuseppe; Contalbrigo, Marco; Ferretti, Paola; Deconinck, W.; Leo, R. D.; Nardo, L. D.; Sanctis, E. D.; Diefenthaler, M.; Nezza, P. D.; Duren, M.; Ehrenfried, M.; Elbakian, G.; Ellinghaus, F.; Fabbri, R.; Fantoni, A.; Felawka, L.; Frullani, S.; Gabbert, D.; Gapienko, G.; Gapienko, V.; Garibaldi, F.; Gavrilov, G.; Gharibyan, V.; Giordano, Francesca; Gliske, S.; Golembiovskaya, M.; Hadjidakis, C.; Hartig, M.; Hasch, D.; Hill, G.; Hillenbrand, A.; Hoek, M.; Holler, Y.; Hristova, I.; Imazu, Y.; Ivanilov, A.; Jackson, H. E.; H. S., Jo; Joosten, S.; Kaiser, R.; Karyan, G.; Keri, T.; Kinney, E.; Kisselev, A.; Kobayashi, N.; Korotkov, V.; Kozlov, V.; Kravchenko, P.; Krivokhijine, V. G.; Lagamba, L.; Lamb, R.; Lapikas, L.; Lehmann, I.; Lenisa, Paolo; Linden Levy, L. A.; Ruiz, A. L.; Lorenzon, W.; X. G., Lu; X. R., Lu; B. Q., Ma; Mahon, D.; Makins, N. C. R.; Manaenkov, S. I.; Manfre, L.; Mao, Y.; Marianski, B.; de la Ossa, A. M.; Marukyan, H.; Miller, C. A.; Miyachi, Y.; Movsisyan, A.; Muccifora, V.; Murray, M.; Mussgiller, A.; Nappi, E.; Naryshkin, Y.; Nass, A.; Negodaev, M.; Nowak, W. D.; Pappalardo, Luciano Libero; Perez Benito, R.; Pickert, N.; Reimer, P. E.; Reolon, A. R.; Riedl, C.; Rith, K.; Rosner, G.; Rostomyan, A.; Rubin, J.; Ryckbosch, D.; Salomatin, Y.; Sanftl, F.; Schafer, A.; Schnell, G.; Schuler, K. P.; Seitz, B.; Shibata, T. A.; Shutov, V.; Stancari, Michelle Dawn; Statera, Marco; Steffens, E.; Steijger, J. J. M.; Stinzing, F.; Taroian, S.; Terkulov, A.; Trzcinski, A.; Tytgat, M.; Vandenbroucke, A.; Haarlem, Y. V.; Hulse, C. V.; Veretennikov, D.; Vikhrov, V.; Vilardi, I.; Wang, S.; Yaschenko, S.; Yen, S.; Yu, W.; Zihlmann, B.; Zupranski, P.

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1609-2

Exclusive rho(0)-meson electroproduction is studied in the HERMES experiment, using a 27.6 GeV longitudinally polarized electron/positron beam and unpolarized hydrogen and deuterium targets in the kinematic region 0.5 GeV2 < Q(2) < 7.0 GeV2, 3.0 GeV < W < 6.3 GeV, and -t' < 0.4 GeV2. Real and imaginary parts of the ratios of the natural-parity-exchange helicity amplitudes T-11 (gamma*(T) -> rho T), T-01 (gamma*(T) -> rho(L)), T-10 (gamma*(L) -> rho(T)), and T1-1 (gamma*(-T) -> rho(T)) to T-00 (gamma*(L) -> rho(L)) are extracted from the data. For the unnatural-parity-exchange amplitude U-11, the ratio vertical bar U-11/T-00 vertical bar is obtained. The Q(2) and t' dependences of these ratios are presented and compared with perturbative QCD predictions.