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The Photon Wave Function in Non-forward Diffractive Scattering with Non-vanishing Quark Masses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The light-cone Photon wave function in explicit helicity states, valid for massive quarks and in both momentum and configuration space, is presented by considering the leading order photon-proton hard scattering, i.e., the splitting quark pair scatters with the proton in the Regge limit. Further we apply it to the diffractive scattering at nonzero momentum transfer and reach a similar factorization as in the case of zero momentum transfer.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9910531,
  title  = {The Photon Wave Function in Non-forward Diffractive Scattering with Non-vanishing Quark Masses},
  author = {S. Gieseke and C. -F. Qiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9910531},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages LaTeX, 2 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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