Timelike Compton Scattering - New Theoretical Results and Experimental Possibilities
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-06-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We review recent progress in the study of timelike Compton scattering (TCS), the crossed process of deeply virtual Compton scattering. We emphasize the need to include NLO corrections to any phenomenological program to extract Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) from near future experimental data. We point out that TCS at high energy should be available through a study of ultraperipheral collisions at RHIC and LHC, opening a window on quark and gluon GPDs at very small skewness.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.6945,
title = {Timelike Compton Scattering - New Theoretical Results and Experimental Possibilities},
author = {Bernard Pire and Lech Szymanowski and Jakub Wagner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6945},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of DIS 2012