Exclusive production of ground and excited light vector mesons with a holographic wave function model

The exclusive photo- and electroproduction of light vector mesons like rho,omega,$$ \rho, \omega, $$ and phi$$ \phi $$ is studied in gamma p$$ \gamma p $$ collisions within the color dipole formalism with vector meson wave functions obtained using the AdS/QCD holographic approach. This setup provides a good description of the existing data for the ground vector mesons rho(1S),omega(1S),and phi(1S)$$ \rho (1S),\kern0.3em \omega (1S),\kern0.3em \mathrm{and}\kern0.3em \phi (1S) $$ and permits us to make predictions for the corresponding excited states. The results show significant theoretical uncertainties related to modeling the partial dipole amplitude, which can be constrained with upcoming measurements in future hadron colliders.

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The exclusive photo- and electroproduction of light vector mesons were studied using color dipole formalism with vector meson wave functions obtained using the AdS/QCD holographic approach. The results show significant theoretical uncertainties related to modeling the partial dipole amplitude, which can be constrained with upcoming measurements in future hadron colliders.