Interplay of Hard and Soft Processes at JLab Energies
Abstract
Even at moderate energy machines, there is a regime where hard pion electroproduction proceeds by a perturbatively calculable process. The process, we claim, is not the leading twist fragmentation one but rather a higher twist process that produces kinematically isolated pions. Semiexclusive data may teach us more about parton distribution functions of the target and the pion distribution amplitude. In addition, there is a connection to generalized parton distribution calculations of exclusive processes in that the perturbative kernel is the same.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212376,
title = {Interplay of Hard and Soft Processes at JLab Energies},
author = {Andrei Afanasev and Carl E. Carlson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212376},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages, 9 figures, Written version of invited talk by CEC at the Second International Symposium on the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule and the spin structure of the nucleon (GDH2002), Genoa, Italy, 3--6 July 2002, and of talk by CEC under the title ``Hard Pion Electroproduction at Medium Energies'' at the XVI International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC02), Osaka, Japan, 30 September--4 October 2002 [WM-02-111; JLAB-THY-02-62]