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Title: Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of cross sections for exclusive deeply virtual pion electroproduction off the proton, ep -> e'n pi(+), above the resonance region at backward pion center-of-mass angles. The phi(pi)*-dependent cross sections were measured, from which we extracted three combinations of structure functions of the proton. Our results are compatible with calculations based on nucleon-to-pion transition distribution amplitudes (TDAs). These non-perturbative objects are defined as matrix elements of three-quark-light-cone-operators and characterize partonic correlations with a particular emphasis on baryon charge distribution inside a nucleon

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Research Org.:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States); Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN); French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique; UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Contributing Org.:
CLAS Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
2325463
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1438395; OSTI ID: 1439889; OSTI ID: 1490279
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-17-2598; DOE/OR/-23177-4261; arXiv:1711.08486; PLB33642
Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693; S0370269318302156; PII: S0370269318302156
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-06OR23177; SC0016583; FG02-07ER41528; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physics Letters. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Journal Volume: 780 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; TDA; Exclusive single pion; Eletroproduction; CLAS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; pion electroproduction; Electroproduction

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Park, K., Guidal, M., Gothe, R. W., Pire, B., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Laget, J. -M., Adhikari, K. P., Adhikari, S., Akbar, Z., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Balossino, I., Baltzell, N. A., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Cao, F. T., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Garçon, M., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Girod, F. X., Golovatch, E., Griffioen, K. A., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Johnston, S., Joo, K., Kabir, M. L., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khachatryan, M., Khandaker, M., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., McKinnon, B., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pogorelko, O., Poudel, J., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rossi, P., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schumacher, R. A., Sharabian, Y., Skorodumina, Iu., Smith, G. D., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tan, J. A., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Wei, X., Zachariou, N., and Zhang, J. Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS. Netherlands: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.026.
Park, K., Guidal, M., Gothe, R. W., Pire, B., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Laget, J. -M., Adhikari, K. P., Adhikari, S., Akbar, Z., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Balossino, I., Baltzell, N. A., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Cao, F. T., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Garçon, M., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Girod, F. X., Golovatch, E., Griffioen, K. A., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Johnston, S., Joo, K., Kabir, M. L., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khachatryan, M., Khandaker, M., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., McKinnon, B., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pogorelko, O., Poudel, J., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rossi, P., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schumacher, R. A., Sharabian, Y., Skorodumina, Iu., Smith, G. D., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tan, J. A., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Wei, X., Zachariou, N., & Zhang, J. Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.026
Park, K., Guidal, M., Gothe, R. W., Pire, B., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Laget, J. -M., Adhikari, K. P., Adhikari, S., Akbar, Z., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Balossino, I., Baltzell, N. A., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Cao, F. T., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Garçon, M., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Girod, F. X., Golovatch, E., Griffioen, K. A., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Johnston, S., Joo, K., Kabir, M. L., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khachatryan, M., Khandaker, M., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Livingston, K., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., McKinnon, B., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pogorelko, O., Poudel, J., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rossi, P., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schumacher, R. A., Sharabian, Y., Skorodumina, Iu., Smith, G. D., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tan, J. A., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Wei, X., Zachariou, N., and Zhang, J. Tue . "Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.026.
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title = {Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS},
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abstractNote = {We report on the first measurement of cross sections for exclusive deeply virtual pion electroproduction off the proton, ep -> e'n pi(+), above the resonance region at backward pion center-of-mass angles. The phi(pi)*-dependent cross sections were measured, from which we extracted three combinations of structure functions of the proton. Our results are compatible with calculations based on nucleon-to-pion transition distribution amplitudes (TDAs). These non-perturbative objects are defined as matrix elements of three-quark-light-cone-operators and characterize partonic correlations with a particular emphasis on baryon charge distribution inside a nucleon},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.026},
journal = {Physics Letters. B},
number = C,
volume = 780,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Left: QCD factorization mechanism for the exclusive electroproduction of a meson (π+) on the nucleon (proton) in the “nearly-forward” kinematic regime. At large Q2 and small |t|, the amplitude of the process can be presented as a convolution of a hard part calculable in perturbative QCD and twomore » general structure functions parametrizing the complex non-perturbative structure of the nucleon (the GPDs; bottom blob of the diagram) and of the meson (the pion DA upper blob of the diagram). Right: factorization mechanism for the same reaction in the complementary “nearly-backward” kinematic regime, where Q2 and W2 are large, xBJ is fixed and |u| is kept small. The amplitude of the process is written as the convolution of the hard interaction amplitude (calculable in perturbative QCD) involving the virtual photon, the three quarks of the out-going nucleon and two gluons, with two structure functions parametrizing the non-perturbative nucleon-to-pion transitions (TDAs) (bottom blob of the diagram) and the nucleon DA (upper blob of the diagram).« less

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