Diffractive vector meson production at HERA using holographic AdS/QCD wavefunctions

TL;DR

This paper shows that holographic AdS/QCD wavefunctions can accurately predict diffractive rho meson production cross-sections, aligning well with experimental data from HERA, thus supporting the AdS/QCD approach.

Contribution

It introduces a holographic light-front wavefunction for the rho meson that successfully predicts diffractive production cross-sections, demonstrating the effectiveness of AdS/QCD correspondence.

Findings

Predictions match HERA data for rho production cross-sections.

Holographic wavefunctions provide a viable tool for meson production modeling.

Supports AdS/QCD as a useful framework in QCD phenomenology.

Abstract

We demonstrate another success of the AdS/QCD correspondence by showing that an AdS/QCD holographic light-front wavefunction for the $\rho$ meson generates predictions for the cross-sections of diffractive $\rho$ production that are in agreement with data collected at the HERA electron-proton collider.