Target and beam-target spin asymmetries in exclusive pion electroproduction for Q2>1 GeV2. II. ep→eπ0p

Bosted, P. E. et al. (2017) Target and beam-target spin asymmetries in exclusive pion electroproduction for Q2>1 GeV2. II. ep→eπ0p. Physical Review C, 95(3), 035207. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.95.035207)

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Abstract

Beam-target double-spin asymmetries and target single-spin asymmetries were measured for the exclusive π 0 electroproduction reaction γ ∗ p → p π 0 , expanding an analysis of the γ ∗ p → n π + reaction from the same experiment. The results were obtained from scattering of 6-GeV longitudinally polarized electrons off longitudinally polarized protons using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory. The kinematic ranges covered are 1.1 < W < 3 GeV and 1 < Q 2 < 6 GeV 2 . Results were obtained for about 5700 bins in W , Q 2 , cos ( θ ∗ ) , and ϕ ∗ . The beam-target asymmetries were found to generally be greater than zero, with relatively modest ϕ ∗ dependence. The target asymmetries exhibit very strong ϕ ∗ dependence, with a change in sign occurring between results at low W and high W , in contrast to π + electroproduction. Reasonable agreement is found with phenomenological fits to previous data for W < 1.6 GeV, but significant differences are seen at higher W . When combined with cross-sectional measurements, as well as π + observables, the present results will provide powerful constraints on nucleon resonance amplitudes at moderate and large values of Q 2 , for resonances with masses as high as 2.4 GeV.

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Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Murdoch, Mr Gavin and Sokhan, Dr Daria and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Ireland, Professor David and Clark, Ms Louise and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and Fegan, Mr Stuart and Montgomery, Dr Rachel and Glazier, Dr Derek and Rosner, Professor Guenther and Protopopescu, Dr Dan
Authors: Bosted, P. E., Kim, A., Adhikari, K. P., Adikaram, D., Akbar, Z., Amaryan, M. J., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Badui, R. A., Ball, J., Balossino, I., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Bültmann, S., Burkert, V. D., Cao, T., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., Charles, G., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Colaneri, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Cortes, O., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fanchini, E., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Fleming, J. A., Forest, T. A., Fradi, A., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Girod, F. X., Glazier, D. I., Gohn, W., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guidal, M., Guler, N., Hakobyan, H., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Hollis, G., Holtrop, M., Hughes, S. M., Ireland, D. G., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Jiang, H., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khandaker, M., Kim, W., Klei, A., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Lenisa, P., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Mayer, M., McCracken, M. E., McKinnon, B., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V. I., Montgomery, R. A., Movsisyan, A., Munoz Camacho, C., Murdoch, G., Nadel-Turonski, P., Ni, A., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Paolone, M., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Puckett, A. J. R., Raue, B. A., Ripani, M., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Saini, M. S., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Sharabian, Y. G., Skorodumina, I., Smith, G. D., Sokhan, D., Sparveris, N., Stankovic, I., Stepanyan, S., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Taiuti, M., Tian, Y., Torayev, B., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D. P., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Zachariou, N., Zhang, J., Zhao, Z. W., and Zonta, I.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physical Review C
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:2469-9985
ISSN (Online):2469-9993
Published Online:20 March 2017
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2017 American Physical Society
First Published:First published in Physical Review C 95(3): 035207
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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