1. A glimpse of gluons through deeply virtual compton scattering on the proton
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J. Huang, S. Riordan, M. Brossard, I. Korover, N. Nuruzzaman, S. Golge, H. Al-Bataineh, P. Bertin, William A. Tobias, Abdurahim Rakhman, H. Kang, H. Yao, A. Camsonne, Franco Meddi, Yujie Qiang, M. Huang, A. Kelleher, A. Martí Jiménez-Argüello, S. Koirala, Kiadtisak Saenboonruang, D. J. Margaziotis, Andrew Puckett, T. Horn, E. Fuchey, G.V. Russo, R. Ent, Z. W. Zhao, Z. Ye, S. Chandavar, J. LeRose, R. De Leo, O. Glamazdin, Olfred Hansen, E. Long, F. Garibaldi, V. Bellini, L. Selvy, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, M. N. H. Rashad, R. A. Lindgren, Cynthia Keppel, P. Markowitz, Jian-Ping Chen, X. Zhan, M. Mihovilovic, Juliette Mammei, Arijit Saha, J. Gomez, V. A. Punjabi, S. Frullani, P. Nadel-Turonski, Alexandre Deur, K. A. Aniol, Chunhui Chen, S. Širca, D. Wang, F. Sabatié, X. Zheng, R. Paremuzyan, Ping Zhu, Mustafa Canan, Kalyan Allada, R. Michaels, D. G. Meekins, C. M. Sutera, M. L. Sperduto, M. Magne, Charles Hyde, B. Zhao, D. Flay, P. Solvignon, L. El Fassi, W. U. Boeglin, M. Defurne, M. Mazouz, Jie Zhang, B. Sawatzky, M. Benali, C. Desnault, Vincent Sulkosky, S. Iqbal, F. Itard, J. Roche, M. Friend, T. Holmstrom, D. Gaskell, Douglas Higinbotham, A. Giusa, A. Shahinyan, C. W. de Jager, C. Muñoz Camacho, Z. Ahmed, G. M. Urciuoli, R. Subedi, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay ( IPNO ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont ( LPC ), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Clermont Auvergne ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
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Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) ,Photon ,Proton ,High Energy Physics::Lattice ,Nuclear Theory ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Virtual particle ,parton: distribution function ,Biochemistry ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,p: structure function ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,[ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,lcsh:Science ,Nuclear Experiment ,Physics ,energy: high ,Multidisciplinary ,strong interaction ,Chemistry (all) ,Compton scattering: form factor ,photon: energy spectrum ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,confinement ,+electron+p+photon%22">electron p --> electron p photon ,channel cross section: measured ,Quark ,electron p: deep inelastic scattering ,Particle physics ,electron: polarized beam ,Science ,Strong interaction ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Bethe-Heitler ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,energy dependence ,quark ,Physics and Astronomy (all) ,[ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,photon: emission ,deeply virtual Compton scattering ,0103 physical sciences ,structure ,010306 general physics ,quantum mechanics: interference ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Compton scattering ,General Chemistry ,gluon ,sensitivity ,Gluon ,[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,Quark–gluon plasma ,lcsh:Q ,[ PHYS.HPHE ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,holography ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) ,photon: virtual ,experimental results - Abstract
The internal structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) remains one of the greatest outstanding problems in modern nuclear physics. By scattering high-energy electrons off a proton we are able to resolve its fundamental constituents and probe their momenta and positions. Here we investigate the dynamics of quarks and gluons inside nucleons using deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS)—a highly virtual photon scatters off the proton, which subsequently radiates a photon. DVCS interferes with the Bethe-Heitler (BH) process, where the photon is emitted by the electron rather than the proton. We report herein the full determination of the BH-DVCS interference by exploiting the distinct energy dependences of the DVCS and BH amplitudes. In the regime where the scattering is expected to occur off a single quark, measurements show an intriguing sensitivity to gluons, the carriers of the strong interaction., It remains a challenge to find the structure and the distribution of the constituents of nucleons. Here the authors use a scattering method to get information about the gluons and quarks inside a proton and separate the contribution of Bethe-Heitler from the deeply virtual Compton scattering process.
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- 2017
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