1. Deeply virtual Compton scattering and its beam charge asymmetry in e±p collisions at HERA
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K. H. Hiller, R. C. W. Henderson, Pavel Murin, Judith Katzy, Calin Alexa, V. Tchoulakov, R.N. Shaw-West, T. Toll, A. D.R. Vargas Trevino, Laurent Favart, S. Habib, S. Ghazaryan, B. Olivier, R. Kogler, E. E. Elsen, Ivan Smiljanic, Emmanuelle Perez, Stephen Maxfield, S. M. Piec, I. R. Kenyon, H. U. Martyn, J-P. Meyer, K. Lipka, T. N. Trinh, R. Zus, J. G. Contreras, Paul Laycock, E. Malinovski, Emmanuel Sauvan, C. Wissing, Ilias Panagoulias, G. Grindhammer, K. Krüger, B. R. Grell, B. Pokorny, J. Žáček, D. Wegener, A. Raspiareza, M. Sauter, Andrew Mehta, N. Gogitidze, A. Specka, M. Kapichine, M. Nozicka, B. Delcourt, Max Klein, B. Stella, Stefan Schmitt, U. Straumann, V. Lubimov, P. E. Reimer, Th. Naumann, F. Tomasz, A. W. Jung, A. Dubak, Fabian Zomer, K. Urban, David M. South, V. Efremenko, P. Sopicki, Tomas Hreus, G. Leibenguth, A. M. Fomenko, Maxime Gouzevitch, A. Knutsson, J. Zálešák, V. Lendermann, V. Spaskov, G. Herrera, S. Shushkevich, Murrough Landon, Sakar Osman, Vladimir Palichik, Paul Richard Newman, Grzegorz Nowak, Mila Pandurovic, A. Falkiewicz, G. Cozzika, N. Loktionova, S. Mikocki, A. Eliseev, A. Nikiforov, L. N. Shtarkov, K. Alimujiang, Hannes Jung, Alexander Zhokin, O. Pejchal, E. Gabathuler, A. Dossanov, R. Pla akyt, T. J. Sloan, V. Andreev, A.S. Belousov, A. Petrukhin, A. Baghdasaryan, A. Rostovtsev, Ll. Marti, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, J. Cvach, Th D. Papadopoulou, Sergey Rusakov, P. Truöl, Pierre Marage, C. Vallée, M. Herbst, M. Deak, V. Cerny, G. Thompson, K. Nowak, P. Van Mechelen, K. Krastev, T.H. Tran, Benno List, John A Coughlan, J. Bracinik, H-C. Schultz-Coulon, G. La tovi ka-Medin, E. Wünsch, T. Kluge, Z. Staykova, M. E. Janssen, A. B. Meyer, Christian Helebrant, A. Makankine, G. Buschhorn, Gabriel Stoicea, D. Ozerov, Wolfgang Lange, Gerhard Brandt, K. Daum, J. Gayler, Karel Cerny, V. Michels, V. Volchinski, D.K. Nikitin, Dirk L. Hoffmann, J. B. Dainton, Leif J. Jönsson, Roland Horisberger, D. J. Fischer, A. Valkárová, Krzysztof Kutak, Y. Vazdik, P.D. Thompson, H. Henschel, J.C. Bizot, A. Glazov, M. Brinkmann, C. Niebuhr, Benoit Roland, S. Egli, J. Delvax, M. Aldaya Martin, V. Brisson, K. Müller, Xavier Janssen, I. Picuric, Zhen Zhang, I. Glushkov, Guenter Eckerlin, André Schöning, Peter Robmann, Ricardo Lopez-Fernandez, Matthias Ulrich Mozer, Y. Soloviev, Dusan Bruncko, A. Fedotov, K. B. Cantun Avila, C. Kiesling, T. Zimmermann, E. Barrelet, F. Moreau, Gang Li, M. Steder, T. Greenshaw, A. J. Campbell, E. Hennekemper, M. von den Driesch, G. D. Patel, M. Jacquet, S. Backovic, J. E. Ruiz Tabasco, E. A. De Wolf, Voica Radescu, Zuzana Rurikova, Christoph Grab, R. Roosen, H. Meyer, Biljana Antunović, S. Levonian, D. álek, Y. de Boer, S. Vinokurova, J. Ferencei, I. Milcewicz-Mika, L. Bystritskaya, J. E. Olsson, W. Bartel, Malte Hildebrandt, P. Kostka, T. Sykora, T. Ravdandorj, Claus Kleinwort, M. Kraemer, J. Turnau, H. Zohrabyan, K. Begzsuren, Richard Polifka, Natasa Raicevic, M. Mudrinic, I. Tsakov, V. Chekelian, F. D. Aaron, J. Feltesse, J. V. Morris, Jenny List, Vincent Boudry, A. N. Morozov, M. Fleischer, A.J. Rahmat, A. Bunyatyan, Marina Rotaru, D. Sunar, C. Pascaud, A. Cholewa, Bogdan Povh, F. Sefkow, A. Lebedev, Cristinel Diaconu, Daniel Pitzl, D. Traynor, D. Haidt, Jan Kretzschmar, Andrej Liptaj, Eram Rizvi, V. Dodonov, Laurent Schoeffel, B. Tseepeldorj, D. P. C. Sankey, Anna Kropivnitskaya, R. Felst, M. Del Degan, and L. Goerlich
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Photon ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Momentum transfer ,Compton scattering ,Parton ,HERA ,01 natural sciences ,Asymmetry ,Nuclear physics ,Dipole ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,010306 general physics ,P system ,media_common - Abstract
A measurement of elastic deeply virtual Compton scattering gamma*p --> gamma p using e(+) p and e(-) p collision data recorded with the HI detector at HERA is presented. The analysed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 306 pb(-1), almost equally shared between both beam charges. The cross section is measured as a function of the virtuality Q(2) of the exchanged photon and the centre-of-mass energy W of the gamma*p system in the kinematic domain 6.5 < Q(2) < 80 GeV2, 30 < W < 140 GeV and |t| < 1 GeV2, where t denotes the squared momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The cross section is determined differentially in t for different Q(2) and W values and exponential t-slope parameters are derived. Using e(+) p and e(-) p data samples, a beam charge asymmetry is extracted for the first time in the low Biorken x kinematic domain. The observed asymmetry is attributed to the interference between Bethe-Heitler and deeply virtual Compton scattering processes. Experimental results are discussed in the context of two different models, one based on generalised parton distributions and one based on the dipole approach. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- 2009