Explicit Proof That Electroproduction of Transversely Polarized Mesons Vanishes in Perturbative Qcd
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By means of an explicit one-loop calculation, it is shown that the leading twist contribution to the exclusive electroproduction of transversely polarized vector mesons from the nucleon vanishes. This confirms the all-orders proof by Collins and Diehl. Typeset using REVTEX Permanent Address: Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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