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Generalized Distribution Amplitudes at the $Z$ pole

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We investigate the exclusive two-pion production at the ZZ-pole through the process e+eZππγe^+e^-\to Z \to \pi\pi \gamma. In the kinematical region where the invariant mass of the two pions is much smaller than the mass of the ZZ boson, the process can be factorized into the convolution of a hard coefficient and a soft matrix element, the generalized distribution amplitude of two pions. We calculate the differential cross-section of charged pion pair production and neutral pion pair production and find the former to be much larger than the later. We show that combining the measurements of charged pion pair production and neutral pion pair production at the ZZ-pole provides a convenient approach to access the CC-odd part of the 2π2\pi distribution amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0511346,
  title  = {Generalized Distribution Amplitudes at the $Z$ pole},
  author = {Zhun Lu and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511346},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Analysis of Bremsstrahlung process added, references and one figure added, misprint corrected,published version

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