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Off forward non-SCHC contributions to exclusive vector quarkonium production from the "spin dependent BFKL Pomeron"

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Pith's one-line read A proton-helicity-flip spin-dependent BFKL Pomeron contributes to exclusive vector quarkonium production at order $\Delta_\perp^2$, with eikonal amplitudes for all helicity channels and a route to the gluon GPD $E_g$ through double-spin…

desk verdict A genuinely useful set of helicity-flip amplitudes for exclusive quarkonium, with a numerical extraction bug in Sec. V that should be fixed before the estimates are trusted. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.02184 v2 pith:GB5HOMIE submitted 2025-06-02 hep-ph

Sanjin Benić , Adrian Dumitru This is my paper
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The reading

Exclusive vector quarkonium photoproduction at high energy has usually been described by a BFKL Pomeron exchange that preserves the proton's helicity, so that s-channel helicity conservation holds in the forward limit. This paper argues that a consistent expansion in the small momentum transfer $\Delta_\perp$ forces a second exchange: a spin-dependent BFKL Pomeron that flips the proton helicity and enters the cross section at order $\Delta_\perp^2$. The paper derives explicit eikonal amplitudes for this exchange in every helicity channel, retaining all orders in the product of dipole size and momentum transfer, and shows that at leading twist the exchange corresponds to the gluon generalized parton distribution $E_g(x,t)$ at zero skewness. It also estimates the size of the helicity-flip two-gluon amplitude from a light-front quark model of the proton, finding the relevant spin-flip-to-non-flip ratio can reach roughly 15 percent for momentum transfers around 1 to 2 GeV. If right, these amplitudes give a way to access $E_g$ through double-spin asymmetries in electron-proton scattering, complementary to existing measurements that only test helicity conservation in the photon-to-meson transition.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the helicity-resolved eikonal dipole-proton amplitude $P_{\Lambda\Lambda'}(r_\perp,\Delta_\perp)$, written as the C-even part of a Wilson-line dipole expectation value in the proton state. The paper decomposes this amplitude into a spin-independent Pomeron $P$ and two spin-dependent Pomerons $P_S$ and $P_S^\perp$ whose angular structure encodes the proton helicity flip, and it computes the photon--vector-meson overlaps for transverse and longitudinal photons. For the numerical estimate, the proton is modeled by a light-front constituent quark wave function with three quarks and parameters tuned to electromagnetic form factors, with quark transverse momenta converted to light-front helicities by a spin rotation; the eikonal two-gluon exchange is evaluated from the correlator of two color-charge operators. The key mechanism is that this spin rotation depends on the quarks' transverse momenta, so a momentum transfer can flip the proton helicity through quark orbital angular momentum even when the individual quarks do not flip their helicities.

What would settle it

Measure the double-spin asymmetry $\Delta\sigma(\lambda_e=+1,S_\perp)-\Delta\sigma(\lambda_e=-1,S_\perp)$ for exclusive $J/\psi$ electroproduction as a function of $\Delta_\perp$. The model predicts a proton-helicity-flip contribution to the cross section of order $\langle r_\perp^2\rangle_V\,\Delta_\perp^2$, with the spin-flip-to-non-flip ratio reaching roughly 15 percent at $\Delta_\perp\approx1\text{--}2$ GeV; a measurement consistent with zero across that range, at comparable kinematics and with the recoil electron detected, would contradict the estimate. A lattice calculation of the helicity-flip two-gluon correlator $G_{2,\Lambda\Lambda'}(q_{1\perp},q_{2\perp})$ at moderate $x$ would also settle the model dependence independently of any collider measurement.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the eikonal BFKL dipole amplitude for $\gamma^{(*)}+p\to V+p$ contains a proton-helicity-flip component at non-zero momentum transfer, described by two scalar spin-dependent Pomeron functions $P_S(r_\perp,\Delta_\perp)$ and $P_S^\perp(r_\perp,\Delta_\perp)$. These functions enter the dipole-proton amplitude with specified angular phases, and the paper derives the resulting amplitudes for every photon, vector-meson, and proton helicity configuration (Eqs. (16)--(20)). At leading twist, the combination $P_S+2P_S^\perp$ corresponds to the gluon generalized parton distribution $E_g(x,t)$ at vanishing skewness, so the eikonal amplitudes constitute a dipole-formalism expression of $E_g$ that is not expanded in powers of $r_\perp\Delta_\perp$. In the photoproduction limit the proton-helicity-flip contributions to the cross section begin at order $\Delta_\perp^2$, and unlike the photon-helicity-flip non-SCHC amplitudes they are not suppressed by powers of the light-cone momentum imbalance $z-\bar z$. A two-gluon exchange calculation in a light-front constituent quark model gives negative spin-dependent Pomeron functions of a few percent of the isotropic Pomeron, with the combination that enters the helicity-flip amplitudes growing to roughly 15 percent at $\Delta_\perp$ between 1 and 2 GeV.

Load-bearing premise

The predicted size of the effect rests on the assumption that a simple three-quark model of the proton, with parameters tuned to its electromagnetic form factors, and a basic two-gluon exchange at $\alpha_s=0.35$, correctly describes the proton's non-perturbative helicity-flip coupling at moderate $x$; if that spin-flip coupling is wrong, the predicted magnitude of the double-spin asymmetry changes.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Proton-helicity-flip terms enter the exclusive quarkonium cross section at order $\Delta_\perp^2$ in photoproduction, and the same order for nonzero photon virtuality, so they are formally the first non-SCHC corrections once momentum transfer is turned on.
  • The helicity-flip cross section is suppressed relative to the non-flip one by $\langle r_\perp^2\rangle_V\,\Delta_\perp^2$ times the ratio of spin-flip to non-flip Pomeron functions, with no $(z-\bar z)^4$ suppression, so the effect should be larger for $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ than naive photon-side SCHC violations.
  • At leading twist the exchange is the gluon GPD $E_g(x,t)$ at zero skewness, so exclusive quarkonium data at moderate momentum transfer can be used to extract $E_g$ in a kinematic region where it is essentially unmeasured.
  • Single target spin asymmetries vanish in the eikonal limit because the amplitudes are real; a double spin asymmetry with a longitudinally polarized electron and transversely polarized proton accesses the real part of the interference between longitudinal and transverse photon amplitudes and is the proposed observable.
  • The computed two-gluon amplitudes provide initial conditions that can be evolved to small $x$ with the known small-$x$ evolution of $E_g$, connecting valence-like moderate-$x$ model input to the high-energy regime.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the model estimate is indicative, the proton-helicity-flip contribution may need to be included as a background in other exclusive spin observables, such as polarization or azimuthal asymmetries in ultraperipheral collisions, even though those measurements are not designed to isolate it.
  • Comparing $J/\psi$, $\psi(2S)$, and $\Upsilon$ could disentangle the spin-dependent Pomeron from other non-SCHC mechanisms, since the proton-flip term scales with the meson's mean transverse size squared while competing terms carry different $z-\bar z$ suppressions.
  • An alternative test of the same physics would be a lattice QCD computation of the helicity-flip two-gluon color-charge correlator at moderate $x$; agreement or disagreement with the quark-model values would settle whether the proposed double-spin asymmetry has the estimated size.
  • The same helicity-resolved dipole amplitudes could be adapted to other exclusive final states, such as light vector mesons or deeply virtual Compton scattering, where $E_g$ enters with different power counting and might provide independent extraction channels.
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Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

2 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper derives eikonal amplitudes for exclusive vector quarkonium production, gamma(*) + p -> V + p, including a t-channel exchange that flips the proton helicity, termed the 'spin-dependent BFKL Pomeron'. The amplitudes are organized by powers of the transverse momentum transfer Delta_perp, and the leading-twist, small-Delta_perp limit is connected to the gluon GPD E_g(x,t). Explicit expressions are given for all helicity configurations of the photon, vector meson, and proton, and a light-front quark model is used to estimate the size of the spin-dependent exchange relative to the standard spin-independent Pomeron. The central phenomenological claim is that the proton-helicity-flip contribution can reach the ~10-15% level at Delta_perp ~ 1-2 GeV, potentially observable through double spin asymmetries at the EIC.

Significance. If the derivation is correct, the paper provides a valuable extension of the dipole formalism to proton-helicity-flip exchanges in exclusive vector meson production, with explicit amplitudes that go beyond the usual SCHC approximation and a concrete proposal for accessing the gluon GPD E_g at small x. The analytic framework is systematic and builds on earlier independent work on GTMD parametrizations and spin-dependent Pomerons; the amplitudes in Eqs. (16)-(20) are given to all orders in dipole size times momentum transfer, and the power counting is clearly explained. The numerical Section V is the weakest part of the manuscript and, as detailed below, contains an error in the extraction of the spin-dependent scalar function P_perp_S0 that undermines the quoted numerical estimates. Subject to that correction, the paper would be a useful contribution to the phenomenology of exclusive processes at the EIC.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sec. V, Eq. (26)] The angular projection for P_perp_S0 does not isolate the function P_perp_S defined in Eq. (4). For the helicity combination used in Eq. (26), namely P_{-1,+1}, Eq. (4) gives, at leading Fourier order, P_{-1,+1} = -e^{-i phi_Delta} (PS0/2 + P_perp_S0) - (PS0/2) e^{-i(2 phi_r - phi_Delta)}. Substituting this into the second line of Eq. (26) yields P_perp_S0^{(extracted)} = -(PS0 + P_perp_S0), not P_perp_S0. The first line of Eq. (26) does correctly return PS0. The failure is visible in simple limits: if PS0 = 0, the second projection gives -P_perp_S0, and if P_perp_S0 = 0, it gives -PS0. Consequently, the quantity labeled P_perp_S0 in Fig. 2 is a combination of both spin-dependent functions, and the plotted ratios v_perp_S and vS + 2 v_perp_S do not correspond to the functions appearing in the amplitudes (17). If the authors intended to use the opposite helicity amplitude P_{+1,-1}, the same projection (26) is correct; as written, the extraction is wrong.
  2. [Sec. V, Fig. 2 and Sec. VI] Because the numerical estimate of the proton-helicity-flip contribution relies on the misidentified P_perp_S0, the claim that vS + 2 v_perp_S can reach approximately 15% at Delta_perp ~ 1-2 GeV is not supported by the paper as written. This number is the only quantitative support for the abstract's statement that the spin-dependent Pomeron could be discovered via double spin asymmetries. The corrected extraction should be implemented, the figures recomputed, and the corresponding statements in Secs. V and VI and the abstract updated. The analytic amplitudes in Eqs. (16)-(20) are not affected by this numerical error, but the numerical conclusions are.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sec. V, Eq. (23)] The value alpha_s = 0.35 is chosen with no explicit scale or uncertainty estimate; a brief comment on the scale choice and its sensitivity would help the reader assess the robustness of the numerical results.
  2. [Fig. 1 and Fig. 2] The axis labels 'w Melosh' and 'w/o Melosh' are informal; spell out 'with/without Melosh rotation' in the legends, and define all plotted quantities in the caption, especially after the corrected extraction is implemented.
  3. [Sec. VI] The paper states that numerical estimates for EIC kinematics are deferred to future work, but the abstract claims the effect could be discovered via double spin asymmetries; a rough rate or asymmetry estimate for EIC kinematics would make the discovery claim more concrete.
  4. [Secs. III-IV] The notation PS and P_perp_S is sometimes used interchangeably with their leading Fourier components PS0 and P_perp_S0; a short table defining the scalar functions and the Fourier truncation would remove ambiguity.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the analytic derivation is self-contained and the numerical estimate is fitted to external electromagnetic observables, not to the predicted asymmetry.

full rationale

The claimed derivation chain is not circular in the sense of this review. The eikonal amplitudes (16)-(20) follow from the BFKL formula (1), the general helicity-flip parametrization (4) taken from independent references [8,9,27], and the photon-vector-meson overlaps of App. A; the Δ⊥ power counting is an algebraic consequence of Bessel-function expansions, not of a fitted parameter. The numerical model in Sec. V computes G2,ΛΛ' via Eqs. (23)-(25) with the Schlumpf wave function whose parameters m_q=0.26 GeV and β=0.55 GeV were tuned to electromagnetic radii and anomalous magnetic moments, i.e. to external static properties, not to the exclusive J/ψ cross section or to PS/P⊥S; thus the quoted vS and vS+2v⊥S ratios are not fitted inputs renamed as predictions. The self-citations (e.g. refs. [25,47,49,51,65]) supply the color-charge correlator framework and earlier quark-model technology, but the proton-helicity-flip overlap and the SDP amplitudes are newly computed here and are not imported as a black-box uniqueness result. No load-bearing step reduces an output to an input by construction. A separate technical caveat flagged in the review is that the second projection in Eq. (26) does not appear to isolate P⊥S as labeled: substituting Eq. (4) for P_{-1,+1} gives, for the leading harmonics, extracted P⊥S0 = -(PS+P⊥S) rather than P⊥S (the first projection does return PS). This is an internal self-consistency/correctness issue in Sec. V that undermines the numerical ratios as stated, but it is not an input-output circularity, so per the hard rules it does not increase the circularity score.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central formal claim rests on standard eikonal and GTMD assumptions; the numerical estimate adds three model parameters. No new physical entities are introduced; the spin-dependent Pomeron is a parametrization of existing GTMDs from prior work.

free parameters (3)
  • alpha_s = 0.35
    Strong coupling chosen for the numerical two-gluon exchange estimate in Eq. (23); no scale dependence is given.
  • quark mass m_q = 0.26 GeV
    Schlumpf model parameter, tuned to the proton electromagnetic radius and anomalous magnetic moments (Sec. V, App. B).
  • wavefunction parameter beta = 0.55 GeV
    Schlumpf model parameter, tuned together with m_q to static proton properties (Sec. V, App. B).
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Eikonal factorization of the exclusive amplitude into a Wilson-line dipole amplitude P_{ΛΛ'} and a photon-vector meson overlap A_{λ̄λ} (Eqs. (1)-(3)).
    Standard high-energy/QCD factorization used throughout; the proton helicity flip is encoded in the dipole amplitude via the GTMD parametrization.
  • domain assumption The general parametrization of P_{ΛΛ'} in Eq. (4) with three real scalar functions P, P_S, P^⊥_S, from ref. [8].
    The paper relies on this decomposition and does not re-derive it; it is the basis for all subsequent helicity amplitudes.
  • domain assumption Leading-twist collinear identification E_g ∼ P_S0 + 2P^⊥_S0 (Sec. IV, App. C), from refs. [9,10,27].
    The claim that the new amplitudes probe the gluon GPD E_g at zero skewness rests on this relation, which is only stated at leading twist.
  • domain assumption Higher Fourier harmonics of the Pomeron beyond P_0, P_ϵ, P_S0, P^⊥_S0 are power suppressed and neglected (Sec. II).
    The derivation retains only the first harmonics needed for the stated Δ⊥ power counting; the paper argues higher harmonics are suppressed by higher powers of Δ⊥.
  • domain assumption Two-gluon exchange approximation for the numerical Pomeron amplitude, Eq. (23), with fixed alpha_s, rather than a full BFKL resummed amplitude.
    The numerical estimates in Sec. V are computed at moderate x in this approximation and are proposed as future initial conditions for BFKL evolution.
  • domain assumption Schlumpf light-front constituent quark model with Melosh-transformed helicity wave functions (App. B, Eq. (B3)).
    The spin-flip amplitude is generated by quark transverse momentum through the Melosh rotation; the paper explicitly notes such models lack a deeper theoretical justification.

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abstract

A novel contribution to off-forward, exclusive vector quarkonium production, $\gamma^{(*)}+p \to V+p$, at high energy is derived which corresponds to a $t$-channel exchange of a BFKL hard Pomeron, with a helicity flip of the proton. This ``spin-dependent BFKL Pomeron" is required in a consistent expansion in powers of the momentum transfer $ t \approx -\Delta_\perp^2$ beyond first order. The spin-dependent Pomeron violates $s$-channel helicity conservation (SCHC) at ${\cal O}(\Delta_\perp^2)$, and beyond. Expanding to leading twist only, it corresponds to GPD $E_g(x,t)$ for vanishing skewness. We derive explicit expressions for the eikonal BFKL amplitudes, to all orders in dipole size times momentum transfer, for all helicity configurations of the particles in the initial and final states. We also provide numerical estimates of the helicity flip two gluon exchange amplitude at moderate $x$ from a light-cone quark model of the proton. The spin dependent BFKL Pomeron could, in principle, be discovered via double spin asymmetries in $e+p \to e+p+J/\psi$ with transversely polarized proton and longitudinally polarized electron in the initial state.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.02184 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. shows P0 (left) and Pϵ (right) as functions of ∆⊥ for r⊥ = 0.25 fm which corresponds approximately to the size of a J/ψ or ψ(2S). The Melosh rotation gives a percent-level correction in the forward ∆⊥ → 0 limit for P0. Increasing ∆⊥ increases the phase space for the orbital motion of quarks and so the effect of the Melosh rotation becomes more important, leading to corrections of several tens of percent at ∆⊥ ∼ 1 − … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. FIG. 2. Left: first harmonics of the spin-dependent Pomerons [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗

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