183 research outputs found
Timelike Compton scattering: exclusive photoproduction of lepton pairs
We investigate the exclusive photoproduction of a heavy timelike photon which
decays into a lepton pair, gamma p -> l+ l- p. This can be seen as the analog
of deeply virtual Compton scattering, and we argue that the two processes are
complementary for studying generalized parton distributions in the nucleon. In
an unpolarized experiment the angular distribution of the leptons readily
provides access to the real part of the Compton amplitude. We estimate the
possible size of this effect in kinematics where the Compton process should be
dominated by quark exchange.Comment: 31 pages, 17 figure
Hard Pomeron in exclusive meson production at ILC
We calculate the exclusive process gamma* gamma* ->rho rho at high energy.
The Born order estimate and the leading (LLA) and next to leading order (NLLA)
BFKL resummation effects show the feasibility of experimental detection in a
quite large range of Q2 values at future high energy e+e- linear colliders.Comment: 4 pages, Presented at Photon2005, International Conference on the
Structure and Interactions of the Photon, Warsaw 31.08-04.09.2005, by Samuel
Wallo
Revealing transversity GPDs through the photoproduction of a photon and a meson
Photoproduction of a pair of particles with large invariant mass is a natural
extension of collinear QCD factorization theorems which have been much studied
for deeply virtual Compton scattering and deeply virtual meson production. We
discuss the production of a photon and a meson, where the wide angle Compton
scattering on a meson subprocess factorizes from generalized parton
distribution. We calculate at dominant twist and leading order in ,
the production cross-section of a transversely polarized meson which is
sensitive to chiral-odd GPDs, and show that it may be measurable in near future
JLab experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider
(POETIC6), September 7-11, 2015, Palaiseau, France. The numerical plot
(fig.3) has been corrected. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1511.0437
Off-Forward Parton Distributions in 1+1 Dimensional QCD
We use two-dimensional QCD as a toy laboratory to study off-forward parton
distributions (OFPDs) in a covariant field theory. Exact expressions (to
leading order in ) are presented for OFPDs in this model and are
evaluated for some specific numerical examples. Special emphasis is put on
comparing the and regimes as well as on analyzing the
implications for the light-cone description of form factors.Comment: Revtex, 6 pages, 4 figure
The Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor and Quark Orbital Angular Momentum
We analyze the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio
as a function of momentum transfer
within perturbative QCD. We find that the prediction for at large
momentum transfer depends on the exclusive quark wave functions, which are
unknown. For a wide range of wave functions we find that $ QF_2/F_1 \sim\
const$ at large momentum transfer, in agreement with recent JLAB data.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Proceedings of the Workshop QCD
2002, IIT Kanpur, 18-22 November (2002
Hard Exclusive Pion Electroproduction at Backward Angles With CLAS
We report on the first measurement of cross sections for exclusive deeply virtual pion electroproduction off the proton, ep â e\u27nÏ+, above the resonance region at backward pion center-of-mass angles. The Ïâ Ï-dependent cross sections were measured, from which we extracted three combinations of structure functions of the proton. Our results are compatible with calculations based on nucleon-to-pion transition distribution amplitudes (TDAs). These non-perturbative objects are defined as matrix elements of threequark-light-cone-operators and characterize partonic correlations with a particular emphasis on baryon charge distribution inside a nucleon
Wide-angle elastic scattering and color randomization
Baryon-baryon elastic scattering is considered in the independent scattering
(Landshoff) mechanism. It is suggested that for scattering at moderate
energies, direct and interchange quark channels contribute with equal color
coefficients because the quark color is randomized by soft gluon exchange
during the hadronization stage. With this assumption, it is shown that the
ratio of cross sections at CM angle
decreases from a high energy value of R_{\pbar p / pp} \approx 1/2.7, down to
R_{\pbar p / pp} \approx 1/28, compatible with experimental data at moderate
energies. This sizable fall in the ratio seems to be characteristic of the
Landshoff mechanism, in which changes at the quark level have a strong effect
precisely because the hadronic process occurs via multiple quark scatterings.
The effect of color randomization on the angular distribution of proton-proton
elastic scattering and the cross section ratio is also discussed.Comment: 18 pages, latex2e, 4 uuencoded figures, include
Timelike form factors at high energy
The difference between the timelike and spacelike meson form factors is
analysed in the framework of perturbative QCD with Sudakov effects included. It
is found that integrable singularities appear but that the asymptotic behavior
is the same in the timelike and spacelike regions. The approach to asymptotia
is quite slow and a rather constant enhancement of the timelike value is
expected at measurable large . This is in agreement with the trend
shown by experimental data.Comment: 17 pages, report DAPNIA/SPhN 94 0
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