Search for odderon-induced contributions to exclusive π0 photoproduction at HERA

Michael Jones, C. Adloff, V. Andreev, B. Andrieu, T. Anthonis, V. Arkadov, A. Astvatsatourov, A. Babaev, J. Bähr, P. Baranov, E. Barrelet, W. Bartel, J. Becker, A. Beglarian, O. Behnke, C. Beier, A. Belousov, Ch Berger, T. Berndt, J. C. BizotJ. Böhme, V. Boudry, W. Braunschweig, V. Brisson, H. B. Bröker, D. P. Brown, W. Brückner, D. Bruncko, J. Bürger, F. W. Büsser, A. Bunyatyan, A. Burrage, G. Buschhorn, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, J. Cao, S. Caron, F. Cassol-Brunner, D. Clarke, C. Collard, J. G. Contreras, Y. R. Coppens, J. A. Coughlan, M. C. Cousinou, B. E. Cox, G. Cozzika, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, W. D. Dau, K. Daum, M. Davidsson, B. Delcourt, N. Delerue, R. Demirchyan, A. De Roeck, E. A. De Wolf, C. Diaconu, J. Dingfelder, P. Dixon, V. Dodonov, J. D. Dowell, A. Droutskoi, A. Dubak, C. Duprel, G. Eckerlin, D. Eckstein, V. Efremenko, S. Egli, R. Eichler, F. Eisele, E. Eisenhandler, M. Ellerbrock, E. Elsen, M. Erdmann, W. Erdmann, P. J W Faulkner, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, R. Felst, J. Ferencei, S. Ferron, M. Fleischer, Y. H. Fleming, G. Flügge, A. Fomenko, I. Foresti, J. Formánek, G. Franke, E. Gabathuler, K. Gabathuler, J. Garvey, J. Gassner, J. Gayler, R. Gerhards, C. Gerlich

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    Abstract

    A search for contributions to the reaction ep → eπ0N* from photon-odderon fusion in the photoproduction regime at HERA is reported, at an average photon-proton centre-of-mass energy (W) = 215 GeV. The measurement proceeds via detection of the π0 decay photons, a leading neutron from the N* decay, and the scattered electron. No π0 signal is observed and an upper limit on the cross section for the photon-odderon fusion process of σ(γp → π0N*) <49 nb at the 95% confidence level is derived, integrated over the experimentally accessible range of the squared four-momentum transfer at the nucleon vertex 0.02 <|t| <0.3 GeV2. This excludes a recent prediction from a calculation based on a non-perturbative QCD model of a photon-odderon fusion cross section above 200 nb. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)35-43
    Number of pages8
    JournalPhysics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Volume544
    Issue number1-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2002

    Keywords

    • High Energy Physics - Experiment

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