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The cross-section of the ep → e′p′γ reaction has been measured at Q 2 = 0.33 (GeV/ c)2. The experiment was performed using the electron beam of the MAMI accelerator and the standard detector setup of the A1 Collaboration. The cross-section is analyzed using the low-energy theorem for virtual Compton scattering, yielding a new determination of the two structure functions PLL - PTT/ ε and PLT which are linear combinations of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton. We find somewhat larger values than in the previous investigation at the same Q 2. This difference, however, is purely due to our more refined analysis of the data. The results tend to confirm the non-trivial Q 2-evolution of the generalized polarizabilities and call for more measurements in the low- Q 2 region (≤ 1 (GeV/ c)2). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the reactions which can be performed at COMPASS to study the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). The high energy muon beam at CERN allows to measure Hard Exclusive Meson Production or Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) in the Bjorken regime in a large range of Q² and xBj (1.5 ≤ Q² ≤ 7.5 GeV2 and 0.03 ≤ xBj ≤ 0.25). Exploratory measurements dedicated to p0 or π0 production can be investigated with the present setup. DVCS measurement require an upgrade of the COMPASS setup. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The excitation of the Δ resonance is observed in proton collisions on C, Nb and Pb targets at 0.8 and 1.6 GeV incident energies. The mass E and width Γ of the resonance are determined from the invariant mass spectra of correlated ( p, π)-pairs in the final state of the collision: The mass E is smaller than that of the free resonance, however by comparing to intra-nuclear cascade calculations, this reduction is traced back to the effects of Fermi motion, NN scattering and pion reabsorption in nuclear matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two-proton correlation functions at small relative momentum have been systematically studied with the large solid angle detector DIOGENE at Saturne for interactions induced by Ne and Ar beams on various targets, and incident energies per nucleon ranging from 200 to 1000 MeV. From these distributions, informations on the space-time structure of the source have been derived as a function of the centrality of the collision, the target-projectile combinations and the incident energy, using the model of Koonin. Special attention has been devoted to take into account all experimental biases in order to get the distorted theoretical correlation curves before comparison to the experimental data. Other interesting conclusions have been obtained when comparing the extracted source radii to the dimensions of the overlapping volume of target by projectile in a pure geometrical model of the collision (clean cut geometry). Some results concerning fragment-fragment small angle correlations are also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cross-section of the ep → e′p′γ reaction has been measured at Q 2 = 0.33 (GeV/ c)2. The experiment was performed using the electron beam of the MAMI accelerator and the standard detector setup of the A1 Collaboration. The cross-section is analyzed using the low-energy theorem for virtual Compton scattering, yielding a new determination of the two structure functions PLL - PTT/ ε and PLT which are linear combinations of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton. We find somewhat larger values than in the previous investigation at the same Q 2. This difference, however, is purely due to our more refined analysis of the data. The results tend to confirm the non-trivial Q 2-evolution of the generalized polarizabilities and call for more measurements in the low- Q 2 region (≤ 1 (GeV/ c)2). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]