Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2017

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.95.035202

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

95

Issue

3

Pages

035202 (1-16)

Abstract

The cross section of the exclusive η electroproduction reaction ep -> e'p' η was measured at Jefferson Laboratory with a 5.75 GeV electron beam and the CLAS detector. Differential cross sections d4σ /dtdQ2 dxBd φη and structure functions σUT + εσL, σTT, and σLT, as functions of t, were obtained over a wide range of Q2 and xB. The η structure functions are compared with those previously measured for π0 at the same kinematics. At low t, both π0 and eta are described reasonably well by generalized parton distributions (GPDs) in which chiral-odd transversity GPDs are dominant. The π0 and η data, when taken together, can facilitate the flavor decomposition of the transversity GPDs.

Original Publication Citation

Bedlinskiy, I., Kubarovsky, V., Stoler, P., Adhikari, K. P., Akbar, Z., Pereira, S. A., . . . Collaboration, C. (2017). Exclusive η electroproduction at W > 2 gev with CLAS and transversity generalized parton distributions. Physical Review C, 95(3), 035202. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.035202

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