Diffractive hadron leptoproduction and SPD

Abstract

We discuss diffractive hadron leptoproduction in terms of skewed gluon distributions and within two-gluon exchange model. Connection of the two-gluon approach with skewed gluon distributions is found. The double spin asymmetries for longitudinally polarized leptons and transversely polarized protons in diffractive vector meson and $Q\bar{Q}$ production at high energies within the two-gluon model is analysed. The asymmetry predicted for meson production is found to be quite small. The $A_{lT}$ asymmetry for $Q\bar{Q}$ production is large and can be used to obtain information on the polarized skewed gluon distributions in the proton.

Comments: 16 pages, latex, 9 figures, lectures presented at the Conference "Symmetries and Spin" - Praha-SPIN-2002, Prague, July 14 - 27, 2002