Exclusive Electroproduction of Pentaquarks

M. Diehl, B. Pire, L. Szymanowski

Published 2004-07-12Version 1

Exclusive electroproduction of a K or K^* meson on the nucleon can give a Theta^+ pentaquark in the final state. This reaction offers an opportunity to investigate the structure of pentaquark baryons at parton level. We discuss the generalized parton distributions for the N -> Theta^+ transition and give the leading order amplitude for electroproduction in the Bjorken regime.