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Kinematical higher-twist corrections in gamma* to M_1 bar M_2 gamma: II. Charged meson production

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Generalized distribution amplitudes (GDAs) of mesons can be probed by the reactions $e^- e^+ \to M_1 M_2 \gamma$, which are accessible at electron-positron colliders such as BESIII and Belle II. After discussing the neutral meson production case in the first paper of this series, we discuss here the complementary case of the charged meson ($M^+ M^-$) production, where one can extract the complete information on GDAs from the interference of the amplitudes of the two competing processes where the photon is emitted either in the initial or in the final state. Considering the importance of the charged meson production, we present a complete expression for the interference term of the cross section which is experimentally accessible thanks to its charge conjugation specific property. We adopt two types of models for leading twist $\pi \pi$ GDAs to estimate the size of the interference term in the process $e^- e^+ \to \pi^+ \pi^- \gamma$ numerically, namely a model extracted from previous experimental results on $\gamma^* \gamma \to \pi^0 \pi^0$ at Belle and the asymptotic form predicted by QCD evolution equations. We include in the calculation the kinematical higher-twist corrections up to twist 4 for the helicity amplitudes. Both models of GDAs indicate that the kinematical corrections are not negligible for the interference term of the cross section measured at BESIII, thus it is necessary to include them if we try to extract the GDAs precisely. On the other side, the kinematical corrections are very tiny for the measurements at Belle II, and the leading twist-2 formula of the interference term will be good enough to describe the charge conjugation odd part of the differential cross section.

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hal-04281519 , version 1 (13-11-2023)

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Bernard Pire, Qin-Tao Song. Kinematical higher-twist corrections in gamma* to M_1 bar M_2 gamma: II. Charged meson production. Physical Review D, 2024, 109 (07), pp.074016. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.109.074016⟩. ⟨hal-04281519⟩
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