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Pion photoproduction cross section at large momentum transfer

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1346552· OSTI ID:1346552
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  1. Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Real Compton Scattering experiment was performed in Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. It was designed to measure, for Compton scattering and π0-photoproduction, the differential cross section over a range of kinematic points and the polarisation transfer to the proton at a single kinematic point. The full range of the experiment in Mandelstam variables t and s was 1.6-6.46 GeV2 and 4.82-10.92 GeV2 respectively with beam energies of 2-6 GeV. The motivation for the experiment is to test the cross section and polarisation transfer predictions of perturbative QCD versus that of predictions from Generalised Parton Distribution models. This thesis will give an overview of the pertinent theory, experimental setup in Hall A and the extracting of the π0-photoproduction cross section.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
1346552
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY--15-2331; DOE/OR/23177--4092, JLAB-E99--114
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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