Perturbative QCD in the Regge limit: Prospects at ILC

After recalling the theoretical and experimental status of QCD in the Regge limit and the requirement of high energy scattering process of onium-onium type for testing this limit, we show that the International Linear Collider would be a major step in this field.Comment: invited review talk presented at EDS07, 15 figure

Chiral-odd pion generalized parton distributions beyond leading twist

We define in a systematic way, based on the light-cone collinear factorization method, the chiral-odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of a pseudoscalar hadron (such as the pi0) up to twist 5. For that, we introduce the relevant matrix elements for 2-parton non-local operators, as well as matrix elements for 3-parton non-local correlators. Their detailed parametrization is fixed based on parity, charge conjugation and time reversal invariance. This leads to the introduction of 20 real GPDs, whose symmetry properties are explicitely given. The reduction of these GPDs to a minimal set is performed by the use of constraints provided by QCD equations of motion and rotation on the light-cone. We show that these 20 GPDs can be expressed through 8 GPDs which satisfy 4 integral sum rules. A surprising outcome of this analysis is the fact that, when assuming the vanishing of 3-parton correlators, as in the so-called Wandzura-Wilczek approximation, the whole set of GPDs vanishes.Comment: 27 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl