The GPDs of The Photon
Abstract
We report on a recent calculation of the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the photon when the momentum transfer in the transverse direction is non-zero. We use an overlap representation of the photon GPDs in terms of the photon light-front wave functions. We calculate the GPDs at leading order in electromagnetic coupling α and zeroth order in strong coupling αs. We consider also the case when the helicity of the photon is flipped. Fourier transform of the GPDs with respect to the transverse momentum transfer gives the parton distributions of the photon in impact parameter space.
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