Published January 16, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Generalized parton distributions of the photon for nonzero skewness

  • 1. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076 (India)

Description

We present a calculation of the generalized parton distributions of the photon when there is nonzero momentum transfer both in the transverse and longitudinal directions. We consider only the contributions when the photon helicity is not flipped and calculate those at leading order in electromagnetic coupling α and zeroth order in the strong coupling αs. We keep the leading logarithmic terms as well as the quark mass terms in the vertex. By taking Fourier transforms of the GPDs with respect to the transverse and longitudinal momentum transfer, we obtain the parton distributions of the photon in position space.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.011

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.011;
arXiv
arXiv:1110.4252v1;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01468-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
707
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 99-106
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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