GPDs from charged current meson production in $ep$ experiments
Abstract
We suggest that generalized parton distributions can be probed in charged current meson production process, . In contrast to pion photoproduction, this process is sensitive to the unpolarized GPDs , and for this reason has a very small contamination by higher twist and Bethe-Heitler type contributions. Since all produced hadrons are charged, we expect that the kinematics of this process could be easily reconstructed. We estimated the cross-sections in the kinematics of upgraded 12 GeV Jefferson Laboratory experiments and found that thanks to large luminosity the process can be measured with reasonable statistics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.01405,
title = {GPDs from charged current meson production in $ep$ experiments},
author = {Marat Siddikov and Ivan Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01405},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
15 pages, 7 figures. Extension of the approach developed in arXiv:1210.4825, arXiv:1301.7014, arXiv:1401.1547 and arXiv:1611.07294 to the charged current electroproduction of pions