Deeply Virtual Pseudoscalar Meson Production at Jefferson Lab and Transversity GPDs
The cross section of the exclusive [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] electroproduction reaction [Formula: see text] was measured at Jefferson Lab with a 5.75-GeV electron beam and the CLAS detector. Differential cross sections [Formula: see text] and structure functions [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] as functions of [Formula: see text] were obtained over a wide range of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The data are compared with the GPD based theoretical models. Analyses find that a large dominance of transverse processes is necessary to explain the experimental results. Generalized form factors of the transversity GPDs [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] were directly extracted from the experimental observables for the first time. It was found that GPD [Formula: see text] dominates in pseudoscalar meson production. The combined [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] data opens the way for the flavor decomposition of the transversity GPDs. The first ever evaluation of this decomposition was demonstrated.