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The total virtual photoabsorption cross section, deeply virtual Compton scattering and vector-meson production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v2

Abstract

Based on the two-gluon-exchange dynamical mechanism for deeply inelastic scattering at low x ~= Q^2/W^2 <<1, we stress the intimate connection between the total virtual photoabsorption cross section, deeply virtual Compton scattering and vector-meson electroproduction. A simple expression for the cross section for deeply virtual Compton scattering is derived. Parameter-free predictions are obtained for deeply-virtual Compton forward scattering and vector-meson forward production, once the parameters in the total virtual photoabsorption cross section are determined in a fit to the experimental data on deeply inelastic scattering. Our predictions are compared with the experimental data from HERA.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0309153,
  title  = {The total virtual photoabsorption cross section, deeply virtual Compton scattering and vector-meson production},
  author = {Masaaki Kuroda and Dieter Schildknecht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0309153},
  year   = {2014}
}

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31 pages Latex, 10 figures and 1 table

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