Nuclear effects and neutron structure in deeply virtual Compton scattering off 3He

Abstract

The study of nuclear generalized parton distributions (GPDs) could be a crucial achievement of hadronic physics since they open new ways to obtain new information on the structure of bound nucleons, in particular, to access the neutron GPDs. Here, the results of calculations of 3He GPDs in Impulse Approximation (IA) are presented. The calculation of the sum of GPDs H + E, and , with the correct limits, will be shown. These quantities, at low momentum transfer, are largely dominated by the neutron contribution so that 3He is an ideal target for these kind of studies. Nevertheless the extraction of neutron information from future 3He data could be non trivial. A procedure, which takes into account nuclear effects encoded in IA, is presented. The calculation of H, E and allows also to evaluate the cross section asymmetries for deeply virtual compton scattering (DVCS) at Jefferson Lab kinematics. Thanks to these observations, DVCS off 3He could be an ideal process to access the neutron information in the next future.