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Nucleon-to-meson transition distribution amplitudes in impact parameter space

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Recent analyses of backward meson electroproduction support the validity of a collinear QCD factorization framework for these hard exclusive reactions. This opens a way to the extraction of nucleon-to-meson transition distribution amplitudes (TDAs) from the experimental data. Similarly to the generalized parton distributions, TDAs - after the Fourier transform in the transverse plane - carry valuable information on the transverse location of hadron constituents. We address the properties of integrated nucleon-to-meson TDAs in the impact parameter representation. We argue that the emerging picture provides an intuitive interpretation for the hadron structural information contained in nucleon-to-meson TDAs and allows to study diquark-quark contents of fast moving hadrons in the transverse plane.

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@article{arxiv.1912.05165,
  title  = {Nucleon-to-meson transition distribution amplitudes in impact parameter space},
  author = {Bernard Pire and Kirill Semenov-Tian-Shansky and Lech Szymanowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05165},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures. LC2019 - QCD on the light cone: from hadrons to heavy ions, 16-20 September 2019, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

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