Photo-- and Electroproduction of $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$ exotics

Abstract

We estimate the kinematic dependence of the exclusive photo-- and electroproduction of $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$ exotic mesons due to $\pi$ exchange. We show that the kinematic dependence is largely independent of the exotic meson form factor, which is explicitly derived for a $1^{-+}$ isovector hybrid meson in the flux-tube model of Isgur and Paton. The relevance to experiments currently planned at Jefferson Lab is indicated.