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AUTHOR
Bernard Pire
Photon-pion charge asymmetry in e+e− reactions: A laboratory for perturbative QCD phases
Abstract The charge asymmetry in the production of a photon and a meson in e + e - annihilation is studied in perturbative QCD. This quantity measures the interference of amplitudes governed by different momentum scales. It is thus a powerful tool to probe strong interaction phases at high energy and in the context of Sudakov exponentiation and the chromo Coulomb phase. We find a null result at the lowest non-trivial order off α s in the entire kinematic region described by perturbative QCD.
Gauge invariance of the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude
We analyze in detail the problem of gauge invariance of the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) amplitude. Using twist-3 one-gluon exchange diagram contributions and the QCD equations of motion, we derive the general gauge invariant expression of the DVCS amplitude on a (pseudo)scalar particle (pion, ${\mathrm{He}}^{4}).$ Similarly to the case of deep inelastic scattering, the amplitude does not depend on the twist-3 quark-gluon correlations at the Born level. The contribution of the derived amplitude to the single-spin asymmetry with longitudinally polarized lepton is calculated.