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Timelike Compton scattering: exclusive photoproduction of lepton pairs

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arxiv hep-ph/0110062 v1 pith:4UCTYH7A submitted 2001-10-04 hep-ph nucl-th

Timelike Compton scattering: exclusive photoproduction of lepton pairs

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keywords comptonexclusiveleptonphotoproductionscatteringtimelikeaccessamplitude
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We investigate the exclusive photoproduction of a heavy timelike photon which decays into a lepton pair, gamma p -> l+ l- p. This can be seen as the analog of deeply virtual Compton scattering, and we argue that the two processes are complementary for studying generalized parton distributions in the nucleon. In an unpolarized experiment the angular distribution of the leptons readily provides access to the real part of the Compton amplitude. We estimate the possible size of this effect in kinematics where the Compton process should be dominated by quark exchange.

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