$π^o$ Electroproduction and Transversity

Simonetta Liuti, Saeed Ahmad, Gary R. Goldstein, Leonard Gamberg

Published 2007-12-14Version 1

Exclusive $\pi^o$ electroproduction and related processes are suggested to investigate the chiral odd transversity distributions of quarks in the transversely polarized nucleon, $h_1(x)$, and its first moment, the tensor charge. The connection between a description based on partonic degrees of freedom, given in terms of generalized parton distributions, and Regge phenomenology is explored.