9–13 Jun 2025
Saariselkä, Finland
Europe/Helsinki timezone

Probing the proton’s correlated spatial structure through UPCs

12 Jun 2025, 09:00
20m
Saariselkä, Finland

Saariselkä, Finland

Lapland Hotels Riekonlinna
Inclusive and diffractive processes and photon, proton and nuclear structure Inclusive and diffractive processes and photon, proton and nuclear structure

Speaker

Prof. liuti simonetta

Description

Generalized parton distributions (GPDs), probed through exclusive processes like deeply virtual Compton scattering, serve as indispensable tools in filling in the gaps of the angular momentum sum rules as well as mapping the partonic spatial structure of hadrons. In this work, we extend the utility of GPDs in mapping the proton’s spatial structure beyond the typical one-body partonic picture, obtainable through Fourier transformations of GPDs to impact parameter space. Connecting two-body densities with the correlation functions that define double GPDs, we find that exclusive processes give access to relative distances and overlaps between partons. UPCs are an avenue for extracting such two-body densities from experiment.

Authors

Zaki Panjsheeri (University of Virginia) Prof. liuti simonetta

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