One-Loop QCD Corrections to Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering: The Parton Helicity-Independent Case

Abstract

We show that the one-loop QCD correction to deeply-virtual Compton scattering can be factorized into the finite perturbative contributions and the collinearly-divergent terms, which correspond to the matrix elements of the off-forward parton distributions. As a by-product, we obtain the next-to-leading order coefficient functions in the generalized operator product expansion of two vector currents.

Comments: 7 pages, latex, no figures