Twist decomposition of exclusive heavy meson production cross sections

Abstract

We study the twist decomposition of the total cross sections for exclusive heavy vector meson electroproduction and photoproduction in the ${\gamma }^{\ast }p$ processes, within the leading logarithmic $1/x$ BFKL formalism. The Mellin transforms of the impact factors of the vector meson are calculated. We show that the higher twist contributions are strongly suppressed in the low-$x$ kinematical regime. Possible enhancement of the higher twists effects for nuclei targets is discussed.

arXiv comment8 pages, 4 figures