pi0 Electroproduction & Transverse GPDs

by Prof. Gary Goldstein (Tufts University, Medford, USA)

Thursday 23 Jun 2011, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Edificio 22 (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Exclusive pi0 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 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 GPDs. This differs markedly from deeply virtual Compton scattering.