Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-08-16
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Invited Talk, presented at the Workshop on Exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virgini
Scientific paper
Hard hadronic exclusive processes are now at the forefront of QCD studies, particularly because of their role in the interpretation of exclusive hadronic B decays. Perturbative QCD and its factorization properties at high momentum transfer provide an essential guide to the phenomenology of exclusive amplitudes at large momentum transfer--the leading power fall-off of form factors and fixed-angle cross sections, the dominant helicity structures, and their color transparency properties. The hard scattering subprocess amplitude T_H controlling the leading-twist amplitude is evaluated in the perturbative domain where the propagator virtualities are above the separation scale. A critical question is the momentum transfer required such that leading-twist perturbative QCD contributions dominate. I review some of the contentious theoretical issues and empirical challenges to Perturbative QCD based analyses, such as the magnitude of the leading-twist contributions, the role of soft and higher twist QCD mechanisms, the effects of non-zero orbital angular momentum, the possibility of single-spin asymmetries in deeply virtual Compton scattering, the role of hidden color in nuclear wavefunctions, the behavior of the ratio of Pauli and Dirac nucleon form factors, the apparent breakdown of color transparency in quasi-elastic proton-proton scattering, and the measurement of hadron and photon wavefunctions in diffractive dijet production.
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