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Large momentum transfer electroproduction of mesons

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Assuming the proton's light-cone wave function to be dominated by small parton virtualities and small intrinsic transverse momenta, we show that the electroproduction amplitudes at large momentum transfer factorize into parton-level subprocess amplitudes and form factors representing 1/x-moments of skewed parton distributions. On the basis of a wave function overlap model for the form factors we present detailed predictions for the electroproduction cross sections. We also comment on large momentum transfer photoproduction.

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Received: 9 June 2000 / Revised version: 27 July 2000 / Published online: 25 September 2000

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Huang, H., Kroll, P. Large momentum transfer electroproduction of mesons. Eur. Phys. J. C 17, 423–435 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100520000500

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