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Virtual radiative corrections due to the long-range Coulomb forces of heavy nuclei with charge Z may lead to sizeable corrections to the Born cross-section usually used for lepton-nucleus scattering processes. An introduction and presentation of the most important issues of the eikonal approximation is given. We present calculations for forward electroproduction of rho-mesons in a framework suggested by the VDM (vector dominance model), using the eikonal approximation. It turns out that Coulomb corrections may become relatively large. Some minor errors in the literature are corrected.
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Communicated by A. Schäfer
Received: 3 October 2003, Revised: 2 December 2003, Published online: 6 July 2004
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25.30.-c Lepton-induced reactions - 25.30.Rw Electroproduction reactions - 13.40.-f Electromagnetic processes and properties - 25.30.Bf Elastic electron scattering
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Aste, A., Hencken, K. & Trautmann, D. Coulomb corrections for coherent electroproduction of vector mesons: Eikonal approximation. Eur. Phys. J. A 21, 161–167 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2003-10182-3
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