Angular distributions in hard exclusive production of pion pairs
Abstract
Using the leading order amplitudes of hard exclusive electroproduction of pion pairs we have analyzed the angular distribution of the two produced particles. At leading twist a pion pair can be produced only in an isovector or an isoscalar state. We show that certain components of the angular distribution only get contributions from the interference of the I=1 and the (much smaller) I=0 amplitude. Therefore our predictions prove to be a good probe of isospin zero pion pair production. We predict effects of a measurable size that could be observed at experiments like HERMES. We also discuss how hard exclusive pion pair production can provide us with new information on the effective chiral Lagrangian.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0012108,
title = {Angular distributions in hard exclusive production of pion pairs},
author = {B. Lehmann-Dronke and A. Schaefer and M. V. Polyakov and K. Goeke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0012108},
year = {2009}
}
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17 pages, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D