On the Interplay between Q2 and t Dependences in Exclusive Diffractive Production of Real Photons and Vector Mesons in ep Collisions

Abstract

We show how the familiar phenomenological way of combining the Q2 (photon virtuality) and t (squared momentum transfer) dependences of the scattering amplitude in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) [1, 2] and Vector Meson Production (VMP) [2] processes can be understood in an off-mass-shell generalization of dual amplitudes with Mandelstam analyticity [3]. By comparingdifferent approaches, we managed also to constrain the numerical values of the free parameters.