Double logarithms resummation in exclusive processes: the surprising behavior of DVCS

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Double logarithms resummation has been much studied in inclusive as well as exclusive processes. The Sudakov mechanism has often be the crucial tool to exponentiate potentially large contributions to amplitudes or cross-sections near phase-space boundaries. We report on a recent work where a very different pattern emerges: the DVCS quark coefficient function C(x,ξ) develops, near the particular point x=ξ, a non-alternate series in αₛⁿ log²ⁿ(x-ξ) which may be resummed in a cosh[K sqrt αₛ log(x-ξ)] factor. This result is at odds with the known result for the corresponding coefficient function for the pion transition form factor near the end point C(z) although they are much related through a z -> x/ξcorrespondence.