Electroproduction of vector mesons - factorization of end-point contributions

Abstract

The end-point contributions in the quark longitudinal momentum fraction of the virtual photon ($\gamma^*$) to vector meson ($V$) impact factor to the diffractive electroproduction amplitude can be factorized in terms of a generalized parton evolution of the target parton distribution. The result is used to model the helicity amplitudes $\gamma^* p \to V p$ in terms of small $x$ generalized parton distributions.