Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries
- CEA-Saclay, Service de Physique Nucleaire, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
The beam-spin asymmetries in the hard exclusive electroproduction of photons on the proton (e-vectorp{yields}ep{gamma}) 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{sub B} from 0.11 to 0.58, Q{sup 2} from 1 to 4.8 GeV{sup 2}, -t from 0.09 to 1.8 GeV{sup 2}), the azimuthal dependence of the asymmetries is compatible with expectations from leading-twist dominance, A{approx_equal}asin{phi}/(1+ccos{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.
- OSTI ID:
- 21128071
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 16; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.162002; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). CLAS Collaboration; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at CLAS
Longitudinal target-spin asymmetries for deeply virtual Compton scattering