In this paper we prove that the simultaneous study of both ρ-and π-meson production by charged currents in Bjorken kinematics allows for a very clean extraction of the leading twist Generalized Parton Distributions of the target, with inherent control of the contribution of higher-twist corrections. Also, it might provide target-independent constraints on the distribution amplitudes of the produced mesons. We expect that such processes might be studied either in neutrino-induced or in electron-induced processes. According to our numerical estimates, the cross-sections of these processes are within the reach of JLab and EIC experiments.
I. INTRODUCTIONThe structure of the hadrons remains up to now a challenging puzzle, which attracts a lot of attention from both theoretical and experimental viewpoints. Nowadays, this structure is parametrized in terms of the so-called generalized parton distributions (GPDs), which are directly related to amplitudes of physical processes in Bjorken kinematics [1,2]. The early analyses of GPDs were mostly based on experimental data on deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) [3] and deeply virtual meson production (DVMP) [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], yet very soon it was realized that in view of the rich structure of GPDs, the poorly known wave functions of the produced mesons, as well as the sizable higher twist contributions [17][18][19][20][21], additional channels are needed. Since the amplitudes of physical processes typically include contributions of GPDs of several flavors and helicity states (sometimes convoluted with distribution amplitudes of other hadrons), the GPDs could be extracted only from self-consistent global fits of all available experimental data. Currently the list of processes which might be used for the extraction of GPDs include: ρ-meson photoproduction [22][23][24][25][26], timelike Compton Scattering [27][28][29], exclusive pion-or photon-induced lepton pair production [30,31], heavy charmonia photoproduction [32,33] (for gluon GPDs), as well as a few other channels [34,35]. Hopefully the forthcoming experimental data from upgraded JLab [17], COMPASS [36][37][38][39][40][41] and J-PARC [31,42], will enrich and enhance the early data from HERA and 6 GeV JLab experiments, as well as improve our understanding of the GPDs of the proton [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54].Some of the experimentally studied channels suffer from well-understood theoretical complications. For example, as was found recently from theoretical analysis of pion DVMP [55], the dominant contribution in JLab kinematics (and possibly at the planned Electron Ion Collider [35]) stems from transversely polarized virtual photons, which implies dominance of twist-three effects. A careful Rosenbluth separation might help to single out contributions of the longitudinal photons. However, even in this case the longitudinal cross-sections might still include various other sources of higher-twist contributions [22]. Recently it was suggested that a test of the Q 2 -...