151. Measurement of Exclusive $\pi^0$ Electroproduction Structure Functions and their Relationship to transverse generalized parton distributions
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Bedlinskiy, I., Kubarovsky, V., Niccolai, S., Stoler, P., Adhikari, K. P., Aghasyan, M., Amaryan, M. J., Anghinolfi, M., Avakian, H., Baghdasaryan, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Bennett, R. P., Biselli, A. S., Bookwalter, C., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., d'Angelo, A., Daniel, A., Dashyan, N., de Vita, R., de Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fleming, J. A., Forest, T. A., Garçon, M., Gevorgyan, N., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Gohn, W., Gothe, R. W., Graham, L., Griffioen, K. A., Guegan, B., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Khetarpal, P., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, A., Kuhn, S. E., Kuleshov, S. V., Kvaltine, N. D., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., Macgregor, I. J. D., Mao, Y., Markov, N., Martinez, David, Mayer, M., Mckinnon, B., Meyer, C. A., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Moutarde, H., Munevar, E., Muñoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Park, S., Pasyuk, E., Pereira, S. Anefalos, Phelps, E., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Pozdniakov, S., Price, J. W., Procureur, S., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Puckett, A. J. R., Raue, B. A., Ricco, G., Rimal, D., Ripani, M., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Sabatié, F., Saini, M. S., Salgado, C., Saylor, N., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Seraydaryan, H., Sharabian, Y. G., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S. S., Stepanyan, S., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tang, W., Taylor, C. E., Tian, Ye, Tkachenko, S., Ungaro, M., Vineyard, M. F., Vlassov, A., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D. P., Weinstein, L. B., Weygand, D. P., Wood, M. H., Zachariou, N., Zhang, J., Zhao, Z. W., Zonta, I., Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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), Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CLAS, 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), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] - Abstract
6 pages, 2 figures; Exclusive $\pi^0$ electroproduction at a beam energy of 5.75 GeV has been measured with the Jefferson Lab CLAS spectrometer. Differential cross sections were measured at more than 1800 kinematic values in $Q^2$, $x_B$, $t$, and $\phi_\pi$, in the $Q^2$ range from 1.0 to 4.6 GeV$^2$,\ $-t$ up to 2 GeV$^2$, and $x_B$ from 0.1 to 0.58. Structure functions $\sigma_T +\epsilon \sigma_L, \sigma_{TT}$ and $\sigma_{LT}$ were extracted as functions of $t$ for each of 17 combinations of $Q^2$ and $x_B$. The data were compared directly with two handbag-based calculations including both longitudinal and transversity GPDs. Inclusion of only longitudinal GPDs very strongly underestimates $\sigma_T +\epsilon \sigma_L$ and fails to account for $\sigma_{TT}$ and $\sigma_{LT}$, while inclusion of transversity GPDs brings the calculations into substantially better agreement with the data. There is very strong sensitivity to the relative contributions of nucleon helicity flip and helicity non-flip processes. The results confirm that exclusive $\pi^0$ electroproduction offers direct experimental access to the transversity GPDs.
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- 2012