Generalized parton distributions from neutrino experiments: twist-three effects

Abstract

We study the twist-3 corrections to the neutrino induced deeply virtual meson production due to the chiral odd transversity Generalized Parton Distribution (GPD). We found that in contrast to pion electroproduction, in neutrino-induced processes these corrections are small. This occurs due to large contribution of unpolarized GPDs $H,E$ to the twist-2 amplitude in neutrinoproduction. Our results are important for analyses of the pion and kaon production in the Minerva experiment at FERMILAB.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2013), Sep 30-Oct 4, Rome, Italy. Details of evaluation may be found in arXiv:1401.1547