Photoproduction of Phi(1020) mesons on the proton at large momentum transfer.

The CLAS collaboration Anciant, E. ; Auger, T. ; Audit, G. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 85 (2000) 4682-4686, 2000.
Inspire Record 528835 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.19491

The cross section for $\phi$ meson photoproduction on the proton has been measured for the first time up to a four-momentum transfer -t = 4 GeV^2, using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. At low four-momentum transfer, the differential cross section is well described by Pomeron exchange. At large four-momentum transfer, above -t = 1.8 GeV^2, the data support a model where the Pomeron is resolved into its simplest component, two gluons, which may couple to any quark in the proton and in the $\phi$.

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The differential PHI photoproduction cross section. The errors shown are the quadratic sum of the statistics and the systematic uncertainties which include 3 PCT for normalization, 5 PCT for acceptance and 5-15 PCT for background subtraction.