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On the structure of the virtual Compton amplitude with additional final-state meson in the extended Bjorken region

Abstract

Using the framework of the non-local light-cone expansion a systematic study is performed for the structure of the twist-2 contributions to the virtual Compton amplitude in polarized deep-inelastic non-forward scattering for general nucleon spin with an additional scalar meson in the final state. A useful kinematic parameterization allowing for appropriate triple-valued off-forward parton distribution amplitudes is given. One-variable amplitudes being adapted to the fixed parameters of the extended Bjorken region are introduced by decomposing the Compton amplitude into collinear and non-collinear components. These amplitudes obey Wandzura-Wilczek and Callan-Gross like relations. The evolution equations for all the distribution amplitudes are determined showing that the additional meson momentum does not appear in the evolution kernels. The generalization to nn outgoing mesons is given

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