1. Deeply virtual Compton scattering using a positron beam in Hall-C at Jefferson Lab
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Afanasev, A., Albayrak, I., Ali, S., Amaryan, M., Annand, J. R. M., Asaturyan, A., Bellini, V., Berdnikov, V. V., Boer, M., Brinkmann, K., Briscoe, W. J., Camsonne, A., Caudron, M., Causse, L., Carmignotto, M., Day, D., Defurne, M., Diehl, S., Ent, R., Chatagnon, P., Dupré, R., Dutta, D., Ehrhart, M., Fernando, M. A. I., Forest, T., Guidal, M., Grames, J., Gueye, P., Habet, S., Hamilton, D. J., Hobart, A., Horn, T., Hyde, C., Kalicy, G., Keller, D., Keppel, C., Kerver, M., Kinney, E., Ko, H. -S., Marchand, D., Markowitze, P., Mazouz, M., McCaughan, M., McKinnon, B., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Muhoza, M., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Murphy, J., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Novotny, R., Paremuzyan, R., Pegg, I., Price, K., Rashad, H., Roche, J., Rondon, R., Sawatzky, B., Sergeyeva, V., Širca, S., Somov, A., Strakovsky, I., Tadevosyan, V., Trotta, R., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Zhamkochyan, S., Zhang, J., Zhao, S., and Zorn, C.
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Nuclear Experiment - 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
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