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Hard exclusive electroproduction of decuplet baryons in the large Nc limit

L. L. Frankfurt, M. V. Polyakov, M. Strikman, M. Vanderhaeghen

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9911381

Abstract

The cross sections and transverse spin asymmetries in the hard exclusive electroproduction of decuplet baryons are calculated in the large Nc limit and found to be comparable to that of octet baryons. Large Nc selection rules for the production amplitudes are derived, leading to new sensitive tests of the spin aspects of the QCD chiral dynamics both in the nonstrange and strange sectors. Importance of such studies for the reliable extraction of the pion form factor from pion electroproduction is explained.

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