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Exclusive Pion-production and the Relation to Transversity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-07-16 v1

Abstract

Exclusive π0\pi^0 electroproduction from nucleons is suggested for extracting the tensor charge and other quantities related to transversity from experimental data. This process isolates C-parity odd and chiral odd combinations of t-channel exchange quantum numbers. In a hadronic picture it connects the meson production amplitudes to C-odd Regge exchanges with final state interactions. In a description based on partonic degrees of freedom, the helicity structure for this C-odd process relates to the quark helicity flip, or chiral odd generalized parton distributions.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2301,
  title  = {Exclusive Pion-production and the Relation to Transversity},
  author = {Gary R. Goldstein and Simonetta Liuti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2301},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2008), 7-11 April 2008, University College London

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