This review treats the advances in Light Baryon Spectroscopy of the last two decades, which
were mainly obtained by measuring meson-production reactions at photon facilities all over …

A large apparent violation of the OZI rule has recently been found in many channels in pp
annihilation at LEAR. An interpretation of these data in terms of the “shake-out” and …

The polarization observables in φ meson photoproduction are studied to probe the
strangeness content of the nucleon. In addition to the dominant diffractive production and the …

The photoproduction of vector mesons (ρ, ω, φ) is of renewed interest because intense high
energy beams of polarized electrons and photons are under development. These beams …

The diffractive φ-meson photoproduction amplitude is dominated by the Pomeron-exchange
process and contains the terms that govern the spin-spin and spin-orbital interactions. We …

The contributions of direct knockout processes, in addition to the diffractive production and
one-pion-exchange processes associated with the φ ρ π and φ γ π couplings, to the …

Strange matrix elements of the nucleon are calculated within the light-cone formulation of
the meson cloud model. The Q 2 dependence of the strange vector and axial vector form …

The production of φ mesons in proton-proton collisions is investigated within a relativistic
meson-exchange model of hadronic interactions. The experimental prerequisites for …

Existing intermediate and high energy φ-photoproduction data is consistent with purely
diffractive production (ie, Pomeron exchange). However, near threshold (1.574 GeV< E γ …

The process γp→ φp close to threshold is investigated focusing on the role played by the s-
and u-channel nucleonic resonances. For this purpose, a recent quark model approach …