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The perturbative limit of the two-pion distribution amplitude

M. Diehl, Th. Feldmann, P. Kroll, C. Vogt

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9912364

Abstract

We consider pion pair production in two-photon collisions, gamma* gamma -> pi+ pi-, at large photon virtuality Q2 and center-of-mass energy s in the hard-scattering picture. In the limit where s is large but s << Q2 we derive an expression for the two-pion light-cone distribution in terms of the conventional pion distribution amplitudes. Our result reproduces the well-known scaling behavior, helicity selection rule and symmetry relations in this regime.

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