Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-05-23
Phys.Rev.D79:054014,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
40 pages, 14 figures Revised text clarifying main points, fixing typos, adding references
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.054014
Exclusive $\pi^o$ 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. This differs markedly from deeply virtual Compton scattering, and both vector meson and charged $\pi$ electroproduction, where the axial charge can enter the amplitudes. Contrarily the tensor charge enters the $\pi^o$ process. The connection through the helicity description of the process to both the partonic and hadronic perspectives is studied and exploited in model calculations to indicate how the tensor charge and other transversity parameters can be related to cross section and spin asymmetry measurements over a broad range of kinematics.
Ahmad Saeed
Goldstein Gary R.
Liuti Simonetta
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