Measurement of deeply virtual compton scattering with a polarized-proton target

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Chen, S. [1 ]
Avakian, H.
Burkert, V. D.
Eugenio, P.
Adams, G.
Amarian, M.
Ambrozewicz, P.
Anghinolfi, M.
Asryan, G.
Bagdasaryan, H.
Baillie, N.
Ball, J. P.
Baltzell, N. A.
Barrow, S.
Batourine, V.
Battaglieri, M.
Beard, K.
Bedlinskiy, I.
Bektasoglu, M.
Bellis, M.
Benmouna, N.
Berman, B. L.
Biselli, A. S.
Bonner, B. E.
Bouchigny, S.
Boiarinov, S.
Bosted, P.
Bradford, R.
Branford, D.
Briscoe, W. J.
Brooks, W. K.
Bultmann, S.
Butuceanu, C.
Calarco, J. R.
Careccia, S. L.
Carman, D. S.
Carnahan, B.
Cazes, A.
Cole, P. L.
Collins, P.
Coltharp, P.
Cords, D.
Corvisiero, P.
Crabb, D.
Crannell, H.
Crede, V.
Cummings, J. P.
De Masi, R.
DeVita, R.
De Sanctis, E.
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[1] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[2] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
[5] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[6] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[7] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[8] Catholic Univ Amer, Washington, DC 20064 USA
[9] CEA Saclay, Serv Phys Nucl, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[10] Christopher Newport Univ, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[11] Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
[12] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[13] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[14] George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[15] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[16] Idaho State Univ, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA
[17] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[19] Inst Phys Nucl, F-91406 Orsay, France
[20] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[21] James Madison Univ, Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA
[22] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[23] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[24] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[25] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Gen Nucl Phys Inst, Moscow 119899, Russia
[26] Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
[27] Norfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[28] Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[29] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[30] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[31] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY 12180 USA
[32] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[33] Univ Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173 USA
[34] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[35] Union Coll, Schenectady, NY 12308 USA
[36] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[37] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA
[38] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[39] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.072002
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The longitudinal target-spin asymmetry A(UL) for the exclusive electroproduction of high-energy photons was measured for the first time in ep -> e(')p gamma. The data have been accumulated at JLab with the CLAS spectrometer using 5.7 GeV electrons and a longitudinally polarized NH3 target. A significant azimuthal angular dependence was observed, resulting from the interference of the deeply virtual Compton scattering and Bethe-Heitler processes. The amplitude of the sin phi moment is 0.252 +/- 0.042(stat)+/- 0.020(sys). Theoretical calculations are in good agreement with the magnitude and the kinematic dependence of the target-spin asymmetry, which is sensitive to the generalized parton distributions (H) over tilde and H.
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