Exclusive electroproduction of lepton pairs as a probe of nucleon structure.
We suggest the measurement of exclusive electroproduction of lepton pairs as a tool to study interparton correlations in the nucleon via generalized parton distributions in the kinematical region where this process is light-cone dominated. We demonstrate how the single beam-spin asymmetry allows one to perform such a kind of analysis and give a number of predictions for several experimental setups. We comment on other observables which allow for a clean separation of different species of generalized parton distributions.
Belitsky
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Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA.
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