Hard exclusive electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons and the QCD axial anomaly

Journal Article · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1999 · Physical Review, D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.114025· OSTI ID:338720

Eides, M I ^[1]; Frankfurt, L L ^[2]; Strikman, M I ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (United States)
2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978 (Israel)

Hard exclusive electroproduction of {pi}{sup 0},{eta},{eta}{sup {prime}} mesons by longitudinal photons is considered. With the help of the QCD factorization theorem we show that at sufficiently large virtualities Q{sup 2} amplitudes of hard exclusive processes may be calculated in terms of the target parton distributions and the minimal Fock component of the pseudoscalar meson light cone wave function at zero interquark distances. This result justifies our calculation of the ratios of the {pi}{sup 0}:{eta}:{eta}{sup {prime}} yields for the electroproduction processes off nucleons and deuterons based on the low energy QCD chiral dynamics, and the QCD anomaly. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}

• OSTI ID: 338720
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 59; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ELECTROPRODUCTION
ETA MESONS
PARTON MODEL
PARTONS
PIONS
PIONS NEUTRAL
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS