DOI 10.1007/s100529901063
Positivity constraints for off-forward parton distributions
B. Pire1 - J. Soffer 2 - O.Teryaev1,3
1 CPhT, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128
Palaiseau, France
2 CPT-CNRS, F-13288 Marseille Cedex
9, France
3 Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics,
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
Received: 16 September 1998 / Revised version: 15 October 1998 / Published online: 11 March 1999
Abstract
Off-Forward Parton Distributions (OFPD's) are new hadronic objects which
may be measured in various exclusive reactions. We derive
non-trivial positivity constraints for them that should allow to get
unbiased rate estimates for proposed experiments.
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