1. First Measurement of Hard Exclusive π^{-}Δ^{++} Electroproduction Beam-Spin Asymmetries off the Proton.
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Diehl S, Trotta N, Joo K, Achenbach P, Akbar Z, Armstrong WR, Atac H, Avakian H, Baashen L, Baltzell NA, Barion L, Bashkanov M, Battaglieri M, Bedlinskiy I, Benmokhtar F, Bianconi A, Biselli AS, Bossù F, Brinkmann KT, Briscoe WJ, Bulumulla D, Burkert V, Capobianco R, Carman DS, Carvajal JC, Celentano A, Charles G, Chatagnon P, Chesnokov V, Ciullo G, Cole PL, Contalbrigo M, Costantini G, Crede V, D'Angelo A, Dashyan N, De Vita R, Deur A, Djalali C, Dupre R, Ehrhart M, El Alaoui A, El Fassi L, Elouadrhiri L, Fegan S, Filippi A, Gavalian G, Glazier DI, Golubenko AA, Gosta G, Gothe RW, Gotra Y, Griffioen K, Hafidi K, Hakobyan H, Hattawy M, Hayward TB, Heddle D, Hobart A, Holtrop M, Illari I, Ireland DG, Isupov EL, Jo HS, Johnston R, Keller D, Khachatryan M, Khanal A, Kim A, Kim W, Klimenko V, Kripko A, Kubarovsky V, Kuhn SE, Lagerquist V, Lanza L, Leali M, Lee S, Lenisa P, Li X, MacGregor IJD, Marchand D, Mascagna V, Matousek G, McKinnon B, McLauchlin C, Meziani ZE, Migliorati S, Milner RG, Mineeva T, Mirazita M, Mokeev V, Moran P, Munoz Camacho C, Naidoo P, Neupane K, Niccolai S, Niculescu G, Osipenko M, Pandey P, Paolone M, Pappalardo LL, Paremuzyan R, Paul SJ, Phelps W, Pilleux N, Pokhrel M, Poudel J, Price JW, Prok Y, Radic A, Raue BA, Reed T, Richards J, Ripani M, Ritman J, Rossi P, Sabatié F, Salgado C, Schadmand S, Schmidt A, Sharabian YG, Shrestha U, Sokhan D, Sparveris N, Spreafico M, Stepanyan S, Strakovsky I, Strauch S, Turisini M, Tyson R, Ungaro M, Vallarino S, Venturelli L, Voskanyan H, Voutier E, Watts DP, Wei X, Williams R, Wishart R, Wood MH, Yurov M, Zachariou N, Zhao ZW, and Zurek M
- Abstract
The polarized cross-section ratio σ_{LT^{'}}/σ_{0} from hard exclusive π^{-}Δ^{++} electroproduction off an unpolarized hydrogen target has been extracted based on beam-spin asymmetry measurements using a 10.2 GeV/10.6 GeV incident electron beam and the CLAS12 spectrometer at Jefferson Lab. The study, which provides the first observation of this channel in the deep-inelastic regime, focuses on very forward-pion kinematics in the valence regime, and photon virtualities ranging from 1.5 GeV^{2} up to 7 GeV^{2}. The reaction provides a novel access to the d-quark content of the nucleon and to p→Δ^{++} transition generalized parton distributions. A comparison to existing results for hard exclusive π^{+}n and π^{0}p electroproduction is provided, which shows a clear impact of the excitation mechanism, encoded in transition generalized parton distributions, on the asymmetry.
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- 2023
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