Exclusive electroproduction revisited: Treating kinematical effects

Andrei Belitsky, D. Müller

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Abstract

Generalized parton distributions of the nucleon are accessed via exclusive leptoproduction of the real photon. While earlier analytical considerations of phenomenological observables were restricted to twist-three accuracy, i.e., taking into account only terms suppressed by a single power of the hard scale, in the present study we revisit this differential cross section within the helicity formalism and restore power-suppressed effects stemming from the process kinematics exactly. We restrict ourselves to the phenomenologically important case of lepton scattering off a longitudinally polarized nucleon, where the photon flips its helicity at most by one unit.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number074010
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume82
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 8 2010

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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