Probing moments of baryon-antibaryon generalized parton distributions at BELLE and FAIR

TL;DR

This paper investigates baryon-antibaryon generalized parton distributions through time-like processes, using experimental data to determine form factors and predict related reactions at FAIR.

Contribution

It introduces a method to extract annihilation form factors from BELLE data and applies these to predict proton-antiproton annihilation processes at FAIR.

Findings

Determined annihilation form factors from BELLE data.

Predicted proton-antiproton to gamma meson reactions at FAIR.

Established symmetry constraints on form factors.

Abstract

We analyze the time-like processes gamma gamma -> B Bbar and p p-bar -> gamma M at large Mandelstam variables within the handbag approach for which the process amplitudes factorize in hard partonic subprocesses and annihilation form factor. The latter represent moments of baryon-antibaryon generalized parton distributions. Symmetry relations restrict the number of independent annihilation form factors for the ground state baryons drastically. We determine these form factors from the present BELLE data on gamma gamma -> B Bbar with the help of simplifying assumptions. The knowledge of these form factors allow for predictions of p pbar -> gamma M for various mesons which may be probed at FAIR.