Hard Exclusive Electroproduction of Two Pions off Proton and Deuteron at HERMES

Abstract

Exclusive electroproduction of ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ pairs off hydrogen and deuterium targets has been studied with the HERMES experiment. The angular distribution of the ${\pi }^{+}$ in the ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ rest system has been studied in the invariant mass range $0.3<m_{\pi \pi }<1.5$ GeV. Theoretical models derived in the framework of the Generalized Parton Distributions show that this angular distribution receives only contributions from the interference between the isoscalar channel I=0 and the isovector channel I=1.

arXiv comment5 pages, LaTex, 9 EPS figures. Talk given by R.Fabbri at SPIN 2002, BNL. References modified