1. Deeply virtual Compton scattering using a positron beam in Hall-C at Jefferson Lab
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Rolf Ent, M. Kerver, T. A. Forest, A. Mkrtchyan, M. J. Amaryan, P. Nadel-Turonski, Jie Zhang, M. McCaughan, V. V. Berdnikov, H. Rashad, J. Roche, Dustin Keller, A. Asaturyan, C. Munoz Camacho, K. Price, Donal Day, H.-S. Ko, B. McKinnon, S. A. Wood, I. Albayrak, V. Sergeyeva, A. Hobart, J. Murphy, S. Zhao, J. R. M. Annand, M. A. I. Fernando, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, A. Somov, Tanja Horn, D. Marchand, S. Zhamkochyan, M. Defurne, H. Mkrtchyan, I. I. Strakovsky, S. Habet, V. Tadevosyan, R. Dupré, David Hamilton, Cynthia Keppel, R. Paremuzyan, H. Voskanyan, G. Kalicy, W. J. Briscoe, Dipangkar Dutta, P. Chatagnon, M. Caudron, S. Niccolai, V. Bellini, C. E. Hyde, Alexandre Camsonne, B. Sawatzky, Salina Ali, G. Niculescu, M. Ehrhart, Simon Širca, Eric Voutier, R. Rondon, E. R. Kinney, M. Muhoza, M. Guidal, P. Gueye, M. Mazouz, M. Carmignotto, Kai-Thomas Brinkmann, L. Causse, Carl Zorn, Andrei Afanasev, R. Novotny, S. Diehl, Richard Trotta, Ian L. Pegg, Joseph Grames, M. Boer, P. Markowitze, 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), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Photon ,interference ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Parton ,Bethe-Heitler ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,momentum transfer dependence ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,p: target ,Cross section (physics) ,deeply virtual Compton scattering ,0103 physical sciences ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,010306 general physics ,Neutral particle ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics ,Spectrometer ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Compton scattering ,photon: electroproduction ,nucleon: generalized parton distribution ,positron: beam ,neutral particle ,kinematics ,momentum: high ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,spectrometer ,Nucleon ,Beam (structure) ,Jefferson Lab ,experimental results - Abstract
We propose to use the High Momentum Spectrometer of Hall C combined with the Neutral Particle Spectrometer (NPS) to perform high precision measurements of the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) cross section using a beam of positrons. The combination of measurements with oppositely charged incident beams is the only unambiguous way to disentangle the contribution of the DVCS $$^2$$ term in the photon electroproduction cross section from its interference with the Bethe-Heitler amplitude. This provides a stronger way to constrain the Generalized Parton Distributions of the nucleon. A wide range of kinematics accessible with an 11 GeV beam off an unpolarized proton target will be covered. The $$Q^2-$$ dependence of each contribution will be measured independently.
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- 2021