BFKL resummation effects in exclusive production of rho meson pairs at the ILC

We calculate the Born order cross-section for the exclusive production of rho meson pairs in e+e- scattering in the Regge limit of QCD and we show the feasibility of the measurement of this process at the ILC. We also investigate the leading and next-to-leading order BFKL evolution, making this process a very clean test of the BFKL resummation effects.Comment: Talk given at the Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS07), Hamburg, Germany, May 30-June 3 200

A test of the BFKL resummation at ILC

We consider the exclusive production of rho^0 meson pairs in gamma^*gamma^* scattering in the Regge limit of QCD as a probe of BFKL resummation effects and we show the feasibility of the measurement of this process at the ILC.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the School on QCD, low-x physics, saturation and diffraction, Copanello Calabria, Italy, July 1-14 200

Production of rho meson pair in gamma* gamma* collisions

We have shown that the lowest order QCD amplitude, i.e. the quark exchange contribution, to the forward production of a pair of longitudinally polarized rmesons in the scattering of two virtual photons gamma (Q1) gamma (Q2) rho rho factorizes in two different ways: the part with transverse photons is described by the QCD factorization formula involving the generalized distribution amplitude of two final rho mesons, whereas the part with longitudinally polarized photons takes the QCD factorized form with the gamma rho transition distribution amplitude. Perturbative expressions forthese, in general, non-perturbative functions are obtained in terms of the rho meson distribution amplitude.Comment: International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics -DIFFRACTION 2006 - September 5-10 2006 Adamantas, Milos island, Greec

Photoproduction of a \pi \rho Pair and Transversity GPDs

We demonstrate that the chiral-odd transversity generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon can be accessed through the exclusive photoproduction process gamma + N -> pi + rho + N', in the kinematics where the meson pair has a large invariant mass and the final nucleon has a small transverse momentum, provided the vector meson is produced in a transversely polarized state. We calculate perturbatively the scattering amplitude at leading order in alpha_s: We build a simple model for the dominant transversity GPD HT (x; chi; t) based on the concept of double distribution. Counting rates estimates show that the experiment looks feasible with the real photon beam characteristics expected at JLab@12 GeV, in low Q2 leptoproduction at Jlab@12 GeV and in the COMPASS experiment.Comment: Latex, 7 pages, 4 .eps figs, Invited talk at the 4th Workshop on Exclusive Reactions at High Momentum Transfer May 18-21, 2010 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia US

Chiral-odd transversity GPDs from a leading twist hard amplitude

The chiral-odd transversity generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon can be accessed experimentally through the exclusive photoproduction process gamma + N -> pi + rho + N', in the kinematics where the meson pair has a large invariant mass and the final nucleon has a small transverse momentum, provided the vector meson is produced in a transversally polarized state. We calculate perturbatively the scattering amplitude at leading order in alpha_s. We build a simple model for the dominant transversity GPD H_T(x,xi,t) based on the concept of double distribution. We estimate the unpolarized differential cross section for this process in the kinematics of the Jlab and COMPASS experiments. Counting rates show that the experiment looks feasible with the real photon beam characteristics expected at JLab@12 GeV, and with the quasi real photon beam in the COMPASS experiment.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in the proceedings of 18th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2010), Florence, Italy, 19-23 Apr 201

On chiral-odd Generalized Parton Distributions

While the chiral-even content of the nucleon is better and better studied, the chiral-odd transversity generalized parton distributions (GPDs) remain almost unknown. These GPDs can be accessed experimentally through the exclusive photoproduction process gamma + N -> pi + rho + N', in the kinematics where the meson pair has a large invariant mass and the final nucleon has a small transverse momentum, provided the vector meson is produced in a transversally polarized state. We calculate perturbatively the scattering amplitude at leading order in alpha_s. We build a simple model for the dominant transversity GPD H_T(x,xi,t) based on the concept of double distribution. We estimate the unpolarized differential cross section for this process in the kinematics of the Jlab and COMPASS experiments. Counting rates show that the experiment looks feasible with the real and quasi real photon beam characteristics expected at JLab@12 GeV, and with the quasi real photon beam in the COMPASS experiment.Comment: 5 pages, to appear in the proceedings of 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics, (ICHEP 2010), Paris, France, July 22-28, 201

Probing photon structure in DVCS on a photon target

The factorization of the amplitude for the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) process gamma*(Q) gamma -> gamma gamma at high Q2 is demonstrated in two distinct kinematical domains, allowing to define the photon generalized parton distributions and the diphoton generalized distribution amplitudes. Both these quantities exhibit an anomalous scaling behaviour and obey new inhomogeneous QCD evolution equations.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, to be published in the proceedings of the PANIC 2008 conference, Eilat (Israel), November 200

New ways to access the transverse spin content of the nucleon

We first describe a new way to access the chiral odd transversity parton distribution in the proton through the photoproduction of lepton pairs. The basic ingredient is the interference of the usual Bethe-Heitler or Drell-Yan amplitudes with the amplitude of a process, where the photon couples to quarks through its chiral-odd distribution amplitude, which is normalized to the magnetic susceptibility of the QCD vacuum. We also show how the chiral-odd transversity generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon can be accessed experimentally through the exclusive electro - or photoproduction process of a meson pair with a large invariant mass and when the final nucleon has a small transverse momentum. We calculate perturbatively the scattering amplitude at leading order, both in the high energy domain which may be accessed in electron-ion colliders and in the medium energy range. Estimated rates are encouraging.Comment: 6 pages, Proceedings of Spin 2010, 19th International Spin Physics Symposium September 27 - October 2, 2010, J\"ulich, German