1. Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries
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G. Niculescu, Gerard Gilfoyle, K. Livingston, L. Blaszczyk, S. Tkachenko, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Deur, D. Sokhan, J. Donnelly, G. Asryan, O. P. Dzyubak, A. V. Vlassov, M. Taiuti, K. S. Egiyan, K. Mikhailov, T. Lee, Atilla Gonenc, G. E. Dodge, R. W. Gothe, J. W. Price, M. Guidal, P. Rossi, R. Dickson, V. Crede, D. Doughty, P. V. Degtyarenko, Daniel S. Carman, Alexei V. Klimenko, J. R. Calarco, M. Mazouz, R. Miskimen, J. Salamanca, Lorenzo Zana, J. Kuhn, M. Ripani, Philip L. Cole, J. P. Santoro, Y. Prok, Z. Krahn, Hovanes Egiyan, B. A. Raue, D. P. Watts, Barry Ritchie, O. Pogorelko, M. Khandaker, V. Batourine, C. Butuceanu, G. Ricco, I. Niculescu, R. A. Niyazov, H. Y. Lu, Friedrich Klein, D. Lawrence, E. Wolin, Z. W. Zhao, N. Markov, Elton Smith, Gerald Feldman, B. McKinnon, J. Ball, S. A. Morrow, N. Baillie, R. De Masi, J. P. Ball, M. Nozar, P. Eugenio, B. Zhao, D. Protopopescu, C. E. Hyde, S. Pozdniakov, M. Garçon, D. Branford, P. Stoler, Michael Wood, R. A. Schumacher, E. De Sanctis, M. J. Amaryan, J. M. Laget, K. Hafidi, P. Ambrozewicz, M. MacCormick, Y. Ilieva, B. Michel, V. S. Serov, D. G. Crabb, J. Langheinrich, E. Voutier, S. S. Stepanyan, E. Pasyuk, R. De Vita, I. Hleiqawi, M. Osipenko, M. Kossov, S. L. Careccia, B. E. Stokes, N. Guler, Sylvain Bouchigny, S. Bültmann, Tsutomu Mibe, M. Anghinolfi, M. R. Niroula, N. Dashyan, F. W. Hersman, L. C. Smith, E. Munevar, S. Stepanyan, L. Casey, K.H. Hicks, K. Joo, Y. G. Sharabian, Larry Weinstein, J. Pierce, Avraham Klein, Latifa Elouadrhiri, D. J. Tedeschi, B. L. Berman, B. S. Ishkhanov, I. Bedlinskiy, N. A. Baltzell, C. A. Meyer, V. P. Kubarovsky, G. V. Fedotov, Laird Kramer, P. Collins, David Jenkins, J. D. Kellie, B. B. Niczyporuk, K. L. Giovanetti, S. V. Kuleshov, C. Hanretty, M. Holtrop, C. Paterson, V. Sapunenko, Michael Vineyard, H. Avakian, D. Sharov, N. Pivnyuk, Dinko Pocanic, D. P. Weygand, W. J. Briscoe, H. S. Jo, K. A. Griffioen, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, D. G. Ireland, S. E. Kuhn, M. D. Mestayer, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, S. Niccolai, E. L. Isupov, Michael L. Williams, W. K. Brooks, S. Boiarinov, C. Tur, G. Rosner, P. Coltharp, Victor Mokeev, J. R. Johnstone, Shifeng Chen, J. Lachniet, M. M. Ito, L. Guo, P. Mattione, A. Tkabladze, J. T. Goetz, V. Gyurjyan, M. Mirazita, M. Ungaro, J. Zhang, F. X. Girod, S. Strauch, L. El Fassi, R. Nasseripour, P. Nadel-Turonski, D. I. Sober, G. S. Mutchler, H. Bagdasaryan, M. Bellis, S. Procureur, Maryam Moteabbed, Bernhard Mecking, K. V. Dharmawardane, G. Gavalian, M. Battaglieri, N. Benmouna, R. Bradford, Chaden Djalali, Michael Dugger, H. O. Funsten, K. Moriya, Carlos A. Salgado, L. Cheng, F. Sabatié, Nikolay Shvedunov, A. Yegneswaran, N. Kalantarians, H. G. Juengst, H. Hakobyan, S. Anefalos Pereira, A.V. Stavinsky, W. Kim, 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, 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), Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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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Quark ,Particle physics ,Photon ,Proton ,media_common.quotation_subject ,HERA ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Parton ,Kinematics ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,01 natural sciences ,Asymmetry ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS, NUCLEON, HERA ,NUCLEON ,010306 general physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,media_common ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Compton scattering ,12.40.Vv,13.40.Gp,13.60.Fz,13.60.Hb,13.60.-r,14.20.Dh,24.85.+p ,PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS ,[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nucleon - Abstract
1 tex file (6 pages), 4 (eps) figures; The beam spin asymmetries in the hard exclusive electroproduction of photons on the proton (ep -> epg) were measured over a wide kinematic range and with high statistical accuracy. These asymmetries result from the interference of the Bethe-Heitler process and of deeply virtual Compton scattering. Over the whole kinematic range (x_B from 0.11 to 0.58, Q^2 from 1 to 4.8 GeV^2, -t from 0.09 to 1.8 GeV^2), the azimuthal dependence of the asymmetries is compatible with expectations from leading-twist dominance, A = a*sin(phi)/[1+c*cos(phi)]. This extensive set of data can thus be used to constrain significantly the generalized parton distributions of the nucleon in the valence quark sector.
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- 2008