1. Extraction of beam-spin asymmetries from the hard exclusive $\pi^{+}$ channel off protons in a wide range of kinematics
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Diehl, S., Joo, K., Kim, A., Avakian, H., Kroll, P., Park, K., Riser, D., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Tezgin, K., Adhikari, K. P., Adhikari, S., Amaryan, M. J., Angelini, G., Asryan, G., Atac, H., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biselli, A. S., Boss`u, F., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Bulumulla, D., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Carvajal, J. C., Celentano, A., Chatagnon, P., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Dilks, C., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Ehrhart, M., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Eugenio, P., Filippi, A., Forest, T. A., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Glazier, D. I., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hakobyan, H., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hayward, T. B., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Jo, H. S., Joosten, S., Keller, D., Khachatryan, M., Khanal, A., Khandaker, M., Kim, C. W., Kim, W., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Leali, M., Lenisa, P., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I. J. D., Marchand, D., Markov, N., Marsicano, L., Mascagna, V., McKinnon, B., Meziani, Z. E., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pogorelko, O., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Raue, B. A., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rossi, P., Rowley, J., Sabatie, F., Salgado, C., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R. A., Sharabian, Y. G., Shrestha, U., Soto, O., Sparveris, N., Stepanyan, S., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Tan, J. A., Tyler, N., Ungaro, M., Venturelli, L., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Watts, D. P., Wei, X., Wood, M. H., Zachariou, N., Zhang, J., and Zhao, Z. W.
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Nuclear Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology - Abstract
We have measured beam-spin asymmetries to extract the $\sin\phi$ moment $A_{LU}^{\sin\phi}$ from the hard exclusive $\vec{e} p \to e^\prime n \pi^+$ reaction above the resonance region, for the first time with nearly full coverage from forward to backward angles in the center-of-mass. The $A_{LU}^{\sin\phi}$ moment has been measured up to 6.6 GeV$^{2}$ in $-t$, covering the kinematic regimes of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPD) and baryon-to-meson Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDA) at the same time. The experimental results in very forward kinematics demonstrate the sensitivity to chiral-odd and chiral-even GPDs. In very backward kinematics where the TDA framework is applicable, we found $A_{LU}^{\sin\phi}$ to be negative, while a sign change was observed near 90$^\circ$ in the center-of-mass. The unique results presented in this paper will provide critical constraints to establish reaction mechanisms that can help to further develop the GPD and TDA frameworks.
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- 2020
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