1. Measurements of Double-Polarized Compton Scattering Asymmetries and Extraction of the Proton Spin Polarizabilities.
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Martel, P. P., Miskimen, R., Aguar-Bartolome, P., Ahrens, J., Akondi, C. S., Annand, J. R. M., Arends, H. J., Barnes, W., Beck, R., Bernstein, A., Borisov, N., Braghieri, A., Briscoe, W. J., Cherepnya, S., Collicott, C., Costanza, S., Denig, A., Dieterle, M., Downie, E. J., and Fil'kov, L. V.
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COMPTON scattering , *POLARIZED beams (Nuclear physics) , *ASYMMETRY (Chemistry) , *PROTON spin , *ANGULAR momentum (Nuclear physics) , *POLARIZATION (Nuclear physics) - Abstract
The spin polarizabilities of the nucleon describe how the spin of the nucleon responds to an incident polarized photon. The most model-independent way to extract the nucleon spin polarizabilities is through polarized Compton scattering. Double-polarized Compton scattering asymmetries on the proton were measured in the Δ(1232) region using circularly polarized incident photons and a transversely polarized proton target at the Mainz Microtron. Fits to asymmetry data were performed using a dispersion model calculation and a baryon chiral perturbation theory calculation, and a separation of all four proton spin polarizabilities in the multipole basis was achieved. The analysis based on a dispersion model calculation yields γE1E1=-3.5±1.2, γM1M1=3.16±0.85, γE1M2=-0.7±1.2, and γM1E2=1.99±0.29, in units of 10- 4fm4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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