Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.212003
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
115
Issue
21
Pages
212003 (7 pages)
Abstract
Unpolarized and beam-polarized fourfold cross sections (d4σ/dQ2dxBdtdϕ) for the ep → e'p'γ reaction were measured using the CLAS detector and the 5.75-GeV polarized electron beam of the Jefferson Lab accelerator, for 110 (Q2;xB;t) bins over the widest phase space ever explored in the valence-quark region. Several models of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) describe the data well at most of our kinematics. This increases our confidence that we understand the GPD H, expected to be the dominant contributor to these observables. Through a leading-twist extraction of Compton form factors, these results support the model predictions of a larger nucleon size at lower quark-momentum fraction xB.
Original Publication Citation
Jo, H. S., Girod, F. X., Avakian, H., Burkert, V. D., Garcon, M., Guidal, M., . . . Collaboration, C. (2015). Cross sections for the exclusive photon electroproduction on the proton and generalized parton distributions. Physical Review Letters, 115(21), 212003 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.212003
ORCID
0000-0003-2243-6836 (Kuhn), 0000-0001-5416-2900 (Weinstein)
Repository Citation
Jo, H. S.; Adikaram, D.; Amaryan, M. J.; Fassi, L. El; Guler, N.; Klein, A.; Kuhn, S E.; Prok, Y.; Weinstein, L. B.; Zhang, J.; and Zhao, Z. W., "Cross Sections for the Exclusive Photon Electroproduction on the Proton and Generalized Parton Distributions" (2015). Physics Faculty Publications. 214.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/physics_fac_pubs/214