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

Abstract

We demonstrate another success of the AdS/QCD correspondence by showing [1,2] that an AdS/QCD holographic light-front wavefunction for the ρ meson generates predictions for the cross-sections of diffractive ρ production that are in agreement with data collected at the HERA electron-proton collider [3,4].