Title
Cross sections for the exclusive photon electroproduction on the proton and Generalized Parton Distributions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Unpolarized and beam-polarized fourfold cross sections (d4σ/dQ2dxBdtdϕ) for the ep→e′p′γ reaction were measured using the CLAS detector and the 5.75-GeV polarized electron beam of the Jefferson Lab accelerator, for 110 (Q2,xB,t) bins over the widest phase space ever explored in the valence-quark region. Several models of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) describe the data well at most of our kinematics. This increases our confidence that we understand the GPD H, expected to be the dominant contributor to these observables. Through a leading-twist extraction of Compton form factors, these results support the model predictions of a larger nucleon size at lower quark-momentum fraction xB.
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Repository Citation
Jo, Hyon-Suk; Biselli, Angela; and CLAS Collaboration, "Cross sections for the exclusive photon electroproduction on the proton and Generalized Parton Distributions" (2015). Physics Faculty Publications. 173.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/physics-facultypubs/173
Published Citation
Jo, Hyon-Suk, F. X. Girod, H. Avakian, V. D. Burkert, M. Garçon, M. Guidal, V. Kubarovsk, Biselli A. et al [CLAS Collaboration]. "First measurement of the helicity "Cross sections for the exclusive photon electroproduction on the proton and Generalized Parton Distributions." Physical review letters 115, no. 21 (2015): 212003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.212003
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.212003
Comments
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