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Single diffractive hard exclusive processes for the study of generalized parton distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) are important nonperturbative functions that provide tomographic images of partonic structures of hadrons. We introduce a type of exclusive processes, to be referred to as single diffractive hard exclusive processes (SDHEPs). We discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions for SDHEPs to be factorized into GPDs. We demonstrate that the SDHEP is not only sufficiently generic to cover all known processes for extracting GPDs, but is also well motivated for the search of new processes for the study of GPDs. We examine the sensitivity of the SDHEP to the parton momentum fraction xx dependence of GPDs.

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@article{arxiv.2210.07995,
  title  = {Single diffractive hard exclusive processes for the study of generalized parton distributions},
  author = {Jian-Wei Qiu and Zhite Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07995},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

26 pages, 26 figures. To match the journal version

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