Eur. Phys. J. C 19, 709-713
DOI: 10.1007/s100520100626
The photon structure and exclusive production of vector mesons in
collisions
L. Motyka1, 2 and B. Ziaja2, 3
1 High Energy Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
2 Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland
3 Department of Theoretical Physics, H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland
(Received: 13 December 2000 / Revised version: 6 January 2001/ Published online: 6 April 2001 -© Springer-Verlag 2001)
Abstract
The process of exclusive vector meson production,
, is studied for almost real photons. This process may be
reduced to the photoproduction of 
off the 
meson. We
discuss the possibility of extracting the gluon distribution of
and of the photon from such a measurement.
Predictions are also given for the reaction
for various e+e-
cms energies typical for LEP and for the future linear colliders.
© Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag 2001
