The handbag mechanism in wide-angle exclusive reactions

Abstract

The handbag mechanism for wide-angle exclusive scattering reactions is discussed and compared with other theoretical approaches. Its application to Compton scattering, meson photoproduction and two-photon annihilations into pairs of hadrons is reviewed in some detail.

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures (using LATEX with ws-procs9x6.cls) invited talk presented at NAPP2003, Dubrownik, May, 2003