1. Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Cross Section at High Bjorken xB
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Georges, F., Rashad, M.N.H., Stefanko, A., Dlamini, M., Karki, B., Ali, S.F., Lin, P-J., Ko, H-S, Israel, N., Adikaram, D., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aljawrneh, B., Allada, K., Allison, S., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Ayerbe Gayoso, C., Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Bartlett, K., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Brash, E., Bulumulla, D., Campbell, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellano, J., Chen, C., Chen, J-P., Chetry, T., Christy, M.E., Cisbani, E., Clary, B., Cohen, E., Compton, N., Cornejo, J.C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Crowe, B., Danagoulian, S., Danley, T., de Persio, F., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Desnault, C., Di, D., Duer, M., Duran, B., Ent, R., Fanelli, C., Franklin, G., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Glamazdin, O., Gnanvo, K., Gray, V.M., Gu, C., Hague, T., Hamad, G., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, K., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D.W., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, Y., Huber, G.M., Hyde, C.E., Ibrahim, H., Jen, C-M., Jin, K., Jones, M., Kabir, A., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, V., King, P.M., Li, S., Li, W.B., Liu, J., Liu, H., Liyanage, A., Magee, J., Malace, S., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., Mcclellan, E., Mazouz, M., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Mesik, K., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Montgomery, R., Muñoz Camacho, C., Myers, L.S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nazeer, S.J., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obretch, O.F., Ou, L., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Park, S., Park, K., Peng, C., Pomatsalyuk, R., Pooser, E., Puckett, A.J.R., Punjabi, V., Quinn, B., Rahman, S., Reimer, P.E., Roche, J., Sapkota, I., Sarty, A., Sawatzky, B., Saylor, N.H., Schmookler, B., Shabestari, M.H., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Smith, G.R., Sooriyaarachchilage, S., Sparveris, N., Spies, R., Su, T., Subedi, A., Sulkosky, V., Sun, A., Thorne, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Tortorici, F., Trotta, R., Urciuoli, G.M., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Yan, X., Ye, L., Ye, Z., Yero, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Zhu, P., Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), and Jefferson Lab Hall A
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dimension: 3 ,parton: distribution function ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Compton scattering: form factor ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,nucleon: generalized parton distribution ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,deep virtual Compton scattering, Compton form factor, helicity, Bjorken scaling ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Nuclear Experiment ,photon: final state - Abstract
International audience; We report high-precision measurements of the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) cross section at high values of the Bjorken variable xB. DVCS is sensitive to the generalized parton distributions of the nucleon, which provide a three-dimensional description of its internal constituents. Using the exact analytic expression of the DVCS cross section for all possible polarization states of the initial and final electron and nucleon, and final state photon, we present the first experimental extraction of all four helicity-conserving Compton form factors (CFFs) of the nucleon as a function of xB, while systematically including helicity flip amplitudes. In particular, the high accuracy of the present data demonstrates sensitivity to some very poorly known CFFs.
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- 2022