PROSPECTS FOR GPDS EXTRACTION WITH DOUBLE DVCS

Double deeply virtual Compton scattering (DDVCS) is the process where an electron scatters off a nucleon and produces a lepton pair. The main advantage of this process in contrast with deeply virtual and time-like Compton scatterings (DVCS and TCS) is the possibility of directly measuring GPDs for x not equal +/-xi at leading order in alpha(s) (LO). We present a new calculation of the DDVCS amplitude based on the methods developed by R. Kleiss and W.J. Stirling in the 1980s. These techniques produce expressions for amplitudes that are perfectly suited for implementation in numerical simulations. Via the PARTONS software, the correctness of this new formulation has been tested by comparing the DVCS and TCS limits of DDVCS with independent calculations of DVCS and TCS.