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Resolving kinematic ambiguities in QCD predictions for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

Authors :
Braun, V. M.
Manashov, A. N.
Mueller, D.
Pirnay, B.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

The existing QCD predictions for the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) depend on the convention used for the skewedness parameter and on the reference frame used to define helicity amplitudes. These ambiquities are formally power-suppressed but numerically significant. They are cancelled by finite-$t$ and target mass corrections that have been calculated recently to the $1/Q^2$ accuracy. It turns out that these corrections can be minimized, at least for unpolarized observables, by choosing a specific reference frame where longitudinal directions are defined by the photon momenta.<br />Comment: Proceedings of the XXII. International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2014) 28 April - 2 May 2014, Warsaw, Poland

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1407.0815
Document Type :
Working Paper