GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE CHIRAL ODD SECTOR AND THEIR ROLE IN NEUTRAL MESON ELECTROPRODUCTION

Our original suggestion to investigate exclusive π0 electroproduction as a method for extracting from data the tensor charge, transversity, and other quantities related to chiral odd generalized parton distributions is further examined. We now explain the details of the process: i) the connection between the helicity description and the cartesian basis; ii) the dependence on the momentum transfer squared, Q2, and iii) the angular momentum, parity, and charge conjugation constraints (JPC quantum numbers).