Skewed parton distributions and wide-angle exclusive scattering

Abstract

The overlap representation of skewed parton distributions is discussed and applications to wide-angle Compton scattering and electroproduction of mesons are presented. The amplitudes for these processes factorise into parton-level subprocess amplitudes and form factors representing 1/x-moments of skewed parton distributions.

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures (using LATEX with epsfig), talked presented at ISHEPP XV: Relativistic nuclear physics and Quantum Chromodynamics, Dubna, September 2000