Measurement of deeply virtual compton scattering beam-spin asymmetries

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作者
Girod, F. X. [1 ,2 ]
Niyazov, R. A. [2 ,32 ]
Avakian, H. [2 ]
Ball, J. [1 ]
Bedlinskiy, I. [3 ]
Burkert, V. D. [2 ]
De Masi, R. [1 ,4 ]
Elouadrhiri, L. [2 ]
Garcon, M. [1 ]
Guidal, M. [4 ]
Jo, H. S. [4 ]
Joo, K. [12 ]
Kubarovsky, V. [2 ,32 ]
Kuleshov, S. V. [3 ]
MacCormick, M. [4 ]
Niccolai, S. [4 ]
Pogorelko, O. [3 ]
Sabatie, F. [1 ]
Stepanyan, S. [2 ]
Stoler, P. [32 ]
Ungaro, M. [12 ]
Zhao, B. [12 ]
Amaryan, M. J. [31 ]
Ambrozewicz, P. [15 ]
Anghinolfi, M. [21 ]
Asryan, G. [40 ]
Bagdasaryan, H. [31 ]
Baillie, N. [29 ]
Ball, J. P. [6 ]
Baltzell, N. A. [35 ]
Batourine, V. [23 ]
Battaglieri, M. [21 ]
Bellis, M. [9 ]
Benmouna, N. [17 ]
Berman, B. L. [17 ]
Biselli, A. S. [9 ,14 ]
Blaszczyk, L. [16 ]
Bouchigny, S. [4 ]
Boiarinov, S. [2 ]
Bradford, R. [9 ]
Branford, D. [13 ]
Briscoe, W. J. [17 ]
Brooks, W. K. [2 ]
Bultmann, S. [31 ]
Butuceanu, C. [39 ]
Calarco, J. R. [28 ]
Careccia, S. L. [31 ]
Carman, D. S. [2 ]
Casey, L. [10 ]
Chen, S. [16 ]
机构
[1] CEA Saclay, Serv Phys Nucl, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[2] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[3] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[4] Univ Paris 11, IPNO, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91406 Orsay, France
[5] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[6] Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
[7] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[8] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[9] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[10] Catholic Univ Amer, Washington, DC 20064 USA
[11] Christopher Newport Univ, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[12] Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
[13] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[14] Fairfield Univ, Fairfield, CT 06824 USA
[15] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[16] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[17] George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[18] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[19] Idaho State Univ, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA
[20] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[22] James Madison Univ, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA
[23] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[24] Univ Blaise Pascal, CNRS IN2P3, LPC Clermont Ferrand, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[25] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS IN2P3, LPSC, F-38026 St Martin Dheres, France
[26] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[27] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Gen Nucl Phys Inst, Moscow 119899, Russia
[28] Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
[29] Norfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[30] Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[31] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[32] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY 12180 USA
[33] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[34] Univ Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173 USA
[35] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[36] Union Coll, Schenectady, NY 12308 USA
[37] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[38] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA
[39] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[40] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
Compton scattering;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.162002
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The beam-spin asymmetries in the hard exclusive electroproduction of photons on the proton (e(->)p -> ep gamma) were measured over a wide kinematic range and with high statistical accuracy. These asymmetries result from the interference of the Bethe-Heitler process and of deeply virtual Compton scattering. Over the whole kinematic range (x(B) from 0.11 to 0.58, Q(2) from 1 to 4.8 GeV2, -t from 0.09 to 1.8 GeV2), the azimuthal dependence of the asymmetries is compatible with expectations from leading-twist dominance, A similar or equal to a sin phi/(1+c cos phi). This extensive set of data can thus be used to constrain significantly the generalized parton distributions of the nucleon in the valence quark sector.
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