Twist-4 photon helicity-flip amplitude in DVCS on a nucleon in the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation

Abstract

We computed twist-4 part of the photon spin-flip amplitude in deeply virtual Compton scattering on a nucleon in the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation. We found a factorizable contribution, which arises from photon scattering on quarks with non-zero angular momentum along the collision axis. As the genuine twist-2 amplitude arises at the NLO, for moderate virtualities of the hard photon, $Q^2\le 10$ GeV${}^2$, kinematical twist-4 correction can give numerically important contribution to the photon helicity-flip amplitude.

17 pages, 2 figures, added qualitative estimate of the magnitude of twist-4 correction which seems to be large

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