1. Exclusive ρ0 electroproduction on the proton at CLAS
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J. Langheinrich, S. S. Stepanyan, E. Pasyuk, S. A. Philips, N. Dashyan, V. Sapunenko, G. Ricco, Alexei V. Klimenko, N. A. Baltzell, C. Salgado, Dinko Pocanic, Barry Ritchie, H. Denizli, A. V. Skabelin, K. A. Griffioen, B. Zhao, V. Gyurjyan, A. I. Ostrovidov, R. Fatemi, K. Park, S. E. Kuhn, Latifa Elouadrhiri, R. C. Minehart, Kei Moriya, C. A. Meyer, H. G. Juengst, B. E. Stokes, G. S. Adams, G. V. Fedotov, V. P. Kubarovsky, J. Zhang, P. Eugenio, K. P. Adhikari, A. V. Vlassov, D. P. Weygand, G. E. Dodge, H. Y. Lu, M. J. Amaryan, G. V. O'Rielly, S. Niccolai, Z. W. Zhao, V. Mokeev, Y. Ilieva, Ji Li, D. G. Jenkins, C. Tur, Gerard Gilfoyle, Elton Smith, H. Hakobyan, A.V. Stavinsky, J. D. Kellie, M. Guidal, M. MacCormick, I. Hleiqawi, S. L. Careccia, R. De Vita, Friedrich Klein, Brian Raue, P. V. Degtyarenko, M. D. Mestayer, J. P. Didelez, R. Nasseripour, L. Todor, F. W. Hersman, P. Coltharp, E. L. Isupov, J. P. Cummings, W. Gohn, S. A. Morrow, S. McAleer, M. Anghinolfi, P. Nadel-Turonski, D. Sokhan, D. Protopopescu, D. J. Tedeschi, M. Holtrop, Michael L. Williams, P. Collins, K. L. Giovanetti, I. Niculescu, F. X. Girod, L. Blaszczyk, B. Carnahan, James Mueller, D. Lawrence, R. G. Fersch, R. A. Miskimen, B. McKinnon, S. Pozdniakov, M. Garçon, J. J. Melone, M. M. Ito, S. Boiarinov, Larry Weinstein, L. Zana, P. D. Rubin, R. De Masi, D. Keller, I. Bedlinskiy, B. M. Preedom, S. Anefalos Pereira, D. Schott, Y. G. Sharabian, R. A. Schumacher, P. L. Cole, M. Yurov, M. Taiuti, S. Mehrabyan, D. Branford, L. C. Smith, E. Munevar, G. S. Mutchler, B. S. Ishkhanov, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, L. Graham, M. Kossov, M. E. McCracken, C. I O Gordon, J. M. Laget, V. Kuznetsov, J. Kuhn, E. Hourany, M. Khandaker, V. S. Serov, L. C. Dennis, B. E. Bonner, J. W. Price, Tsutomu Mibe, S. Bültmann, G. Audit, Shifeng Chen, C. Bookwalter, N. Gevorgyan, M. Osipenko, C. E. Hyde-Wright, J. P. Santoro, H. S. Jo, H. Avakian, L. Morand, I. Popa, D. Sharov, T. A. Forest, G. Riccardi, M. R. Niroula, E. De Sanctis, O. Pogorelko, S. Stepanyan, P. Mattione, C. Butuceanu, M. S. Saini, D. Doughty, J. Pierce, M. Ripani, B. L. Berman, Avraham Klein, L. M. Qin, M. Aghasyan, E. Wolin, Sergey Kuleshov, W. J. Briscoe, D. Heddle, J. T. Goetz, D. I. Sober, Kalvir S. Dhuga, M. Bektasoglu, S. A. Dytman, S. Dhamija, M. Nozar, E. Polli, M. Mirazita, C. Paterson, J. P. Ball, R. W. Gothe, Y. Prok, B. Moreno, W. Kim, J. Hardie, Hall Crannell, D. S. Carman, K. Livingston, G. Rosner, C. Marchand, G. Niculescu, D. S. Dale, N. Baillie, S. Park, Sylvain Bouchigny, J. Lachniet, A. Tkabladze, D. G. Crabb, R. Dickson, Michael Vineyard, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, J. R. Calarco, P. Khetarpal, N. Guler, J. Salamanca, L. El Fassi, J. W C McNabb, S. Barrow, P. Rossi, L. Casey, H. Bagdasaryan, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, B. B. Niczyporuk, N. Pivnyuk, P. Stoler, C. Hanretty, Laird Kramer, J. R. Johnstone, L. Guo, M. Ungaro, A. Fradi, K. Joo, D. Cords, N. Markov, A. Yegneswaran, K. Hicks, M. Battaglieri, R. Bradford, K. S. Egiyan, A. Cazes, S. Procureur, Maryam Moteabbed, Bernhard Mecking, K. V. Dharmawardane, N. Hassall, M. Bellis, K. Mikhailov, G. Asryan, O. P. Dzyubak, R. A. Niyazov, P. Corvisiero, S. Strauch, D. P. Watts, H. Egiyan, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Deur, W. K. Brooks, R. J. Feuerbach, Cynthia Marie Hadjidakis, M. Guillo, Chaden Djalali, Michael Dugger, L. Cheng, F. Sabatié, Nikolay Shvedunov, N. Kalantarians, G. Gavalian, S. Tkachenko, and N. Benmouna
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Quark ,Physics ,REPRESENTATION ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Valence (chemistry) ,Proton ,Hadron ,Parton ,VECTOR-MESON ELECTROPRODUCTION ,Approx ,PHOTONS ,QCD ,EVOLUTION ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Regge theory ,Nuclear physics ,Scattering amplitude ,GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS, VIRTUAL COMPTON-SCATTERING, VECTOR-MESON ELECTROPRODUCTION, LARGE MOMENTUM-TRANSFER, DIFFRACTIVE PRODUCTION, PHOTOPRODUCTION, PHOTONS, QCD, REPRESENTATION, EVOLUTION ,LARGE MOMENTUM-TRANSFER ,GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS ,DIFFRACTIVE PRODUCTION ,PHOTOPRODUCTION ,Nuclear Experiment ,VIRTUAL COMPTON-SCATTERING - Abstract
The $e p\to e^\prime p \rho^0$ reaction has been measured, using the 5.754 GeV electron beam of Jefferson Lab and the CLAS detector. This represents the largest ever set of data for this reaction in the valence region. Integrated and differential cross sections are presented. The $W$, $Q^2$ and $t$ dependences of the cross section are compared to theoretical calculations based on $t$-channel meson-exchange Regge theory on the one hand and on quark handbag diagrams related to Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) on the other hand. The Regge approach can describe at the $\approx$ 30% level most of the features of the present data while the two GPD calculations that are presented in this article which succesfully reproduce the high energy data strongly underestimate the present data. The question is then raised whether this discrepancy originates from an incomplete or inexact way of modelling the GPDs or the associated hard scattering amplitude or whether the GPD formalism is simply inapplicable in this region due to higher-twists contributions, incalculable at present., Comment: 29 pages, 29 figures
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- 2008