Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering: Facing Nonforward Distributions
arXiv:hep-ph/9706493 · doi:10.1063/1.53670
Abstract
Applications of perturbative QCD to deeply virtual Compton scattering process require a generalization of usual parton distributions for the case when long-distance information is accumulated in nonforward matrix elements of quark and gluon operators. We discuss two types of functions parametrizing such matrix elements: double distributions F(x,y;t) and nonforward distribution functions \cal F_ζ(X;t) and also their relation to usual parton densities f(x).
arXiv comment4 pages, to be published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Deep Inelastic Scattering, Chicago, April 1997, AIP