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Low and moderate $x$ gluon contribution to exclusive Compton scattering processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-09-29 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We revisit the high energy semi-classical description of the exclusive processes DVCS, TCS, and Double DVCS by explicitly keeping track of the Feynman xx dependence in both the hard and the hadronic matrix elements. This is achieved by a modification of the standard shock wave approximation to derive the effective Feynman rules, which leads to a generic expression on which we then perform a partial twist expansion to get rid of quantities suppressed by the proper physical scales. We obtain a compact factorized master formula that can be used to investigate the Bjorken limit at leading twist. In particular, we recover the full one-loop result in the collinear limit for pure gluon exchange with the target. Finally, we discuss the subtleties in taking the simultaneous collinear and small xx limit.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16576,
  title  = {Low and moderate $x$ gluon contribution to exclusive Compton scattering processes},
  author = {Renaud Boussarie and Yacine Mehtar-Tani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16576},
  year   = {2023}
}

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43 pages, 5 figures

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