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Phys. Rev. D 71, 111501(R) (2005) [5 pages]

Hadron annihilation into two photons and backward virtual Compton scattering in the scaling regime of QCD

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B. Pire1 and L. Szymanowski2,3
1CPhT, École Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
2Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
3Physique Théorique Fondamentale, Université de Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium

Received 30 November 2004; published 6 June 2005

We study the scaling regime of hadron-(anti)hadron annihilation into a deeply virtual photon and a real photon, HH̅ →γ*γ, and backward virtual Compton scattering, γ*HHγ. We advocate that there is a kinematical region where the scattering amplitude factorizes into a short-distance matrix element and a long-distance dominated object: a transition distribution amplitude which describes the hadron to photon transition.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.111501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.111501
PACS:
13.60.−r, 13.88.+e, 14.20.Dh