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Transversity via Exclusive pi0 Electroproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v2

Abstract

Exclusive pi0 electroproduction from nucleons can be related to transversity, the tensor charge, and other quantities related to transversity. This process isolates C-parity odd and chiral odd combinations of t-channel exchange quantum numbers. In a hadronic picture the meson production amplitudes for intermediate energy and Q are determined by C-odd Regge exchanges with final state interactions. The helicity structure for this C-odd process relates to the quark helicity flip, or chiral odd generalized parton distributions (GPDs).Various cross sections and asymmetries will be sensitive to the transversity.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2128,
  title  = {Transversity via Exclusive pi0 Electroproduction},
  author = {Gary R. Goldstein and Simonetta Liuti and Saeed Ahmad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2128},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures, presented at Transversity 2008, Second International Workshop on Transverse Polarization Phenomena in Hard Processes, Ferrara, Italy, May 28-31, 2008 Corrected references

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