Abstract

We consider high-energy photoproduction of the tensor meson f 2(1270) by odderon and photon exchange in the reaction γ + p → f 2(1270) + X, where X is either the nucleon or the sum of the N(1520) and N(1535) baryon resonances. The odderon exchange contribution is calculated in nonperturbative QCD, using functional integral techniques and the model of the stochastic vacuum. Odderon exchange dominates except at very small transverse momentum, and we find a cross section of about 20 nb at a centre-of-mass energy of 20 GeV. This result is compared with what is currently known experimentally about f 2 photoproduction.

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