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Old Dominion University

Proton

2008

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Measurement Of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries, Clas Collaboration, H. Bagdasaryan, S. L. Careccia, K. V. Dharmawardane, G. E. Dodge, G. Gavalian, C. E. Hyde, H. G. Juengst, N. Kalantarians, A. Klein, A. V. Klimenko, S. E. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, S. Tkachenko, L. B. Weinstein, J. Zhang Jan 2008

Measurement Of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries, Clas Collaboration, H. Bagdasaryan, S. L. Careccia, K. V. Dharmawardane, G. E. Dodge, G. Gavalian, C. E. Hyde, H. G. Juengst, N. Kalantarians, A. Klein, A. V. Klimenko, S. E. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, S. Tkachenko, L. B. Weinstein, J. Zhang

Physics Faculty Publications

The beam-spin asymmetries in the hard exclusive electroproduction of photons on the proton (ep→epγ ) 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 (xB from 0.11 to 0.58, Q2 from 1 to 4.8  GeV2, −t from 0.09 to 1.8  GeV2), the azimuthal dependence of the asymmetries is compatible with expectations from leading-twist dominance, A ≃ asinϕ/(1+ccosϕ). This extensive set of data can thus be used to …