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Hard diffractive electroproduction of two pions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We have calculated the leading order amplitude of hard diffractive electroproduction of two pions in lepton nucleon scattering. At the leading twist level a pion pair can be produced only in an isospin one or zero state. We have shown that isoscalar states are produced dominantly for x_{Bj}>0.3 and with an invariant mass of the two pions close to the threshold (S-wave) and in the f_2 resonance region (D-wave). These isoscalar pion pairs are dominantly produced by two collinear gluons. Comparing the production of charged and neutral pion pairs as a function of x_{Bj} and m_pipi one can get information about the gluonic component of two-pion distribution amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9910310,
  title  = {Hard diffractive electroproduction of two pions},
  author = {B. Lehmann-Dronke and P. V. Pobylitsa and M. V. Polyakov and A. Schafer and K. Goeke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9910310},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Estimates of angular distributions are added

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