Beam spin asymmetries in deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) with CLAS at 4.8 GeV

Gavalian, G. et al. (2009) Beam spin asymmetries in deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) with CLAS at 4.8 GeV. Physical Review C, 80(3), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.80.035206)

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.80.035206

Abstract

We report measurements of the beam spin asymmetry in deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) at an electron beam energy of 4.8 GeV using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The DVCS beam spin asymmetry has been measured in a wide range of kinematics, 1.0<Q<sup>2</sup><2.8 (GeV/c)<sup>2</sup>, 0.12<x<sub>B</sub><0.48, and 0.1<-t<0.8 (GeV/c)<sup>2</sup>, using the reaction e⃗p→e'pX. The number of H(e,e'γp) and H(e,e'π0p) events are separated in each (Q<sup>2</sup>,x<sub>B</sub>,t) bin by a fit to the line shape of the H(e,e'p)X M<sub>x</sub><sup>2</sup> distribution. The validity of the method was studied in detail using experimental and simulated data. It was shown that with the achieved missing mass squared resolution and the available statistics, the separation of DVCS–Bethe-Heitler and π<sup>0</sup> events can reliably be done with less than 5% uncertainty. Also, the Q<sup>2</sup> and t dependences of the sinϕ moments of the asymmetry are extracted and compared with theoretical calculations.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Sokhan, Dr Daria and Protopopescu, Dr Dan and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and Ireland, Professor David and Kellie, Dr James and Rosner, Professor Guenther
Authors: Gavalian, G., Burkert, V.D., Elouadrhiri, L., Holtrop, M., Stepanyan, S., Abrahamyan, D., Adams, G., Amaryan, M.J., Ambrozewicz, P., Anghinolfi, M., Asavapibhop, B., Asryan, G., Avakian, H., Bagdasaryan, H., Baillie, N., Ball, J.P., Baltzell, N.A., Barrow, S., Batourine, V., Battaglieri, M., Beard, K., Bedlinskiy, I., Bektasoglu, M., Bellis, M., Benmouna, N., Berman, B.L., Biselli, A.S., Bonner, B.E., Bouchigny, S., Boiarinov, S., Bradford, R., Branford, D., Briscoe, W.J., Brooks, W.K., Bültmann, S., Butuceanu, C., Calarco, J.R., Careccia, S.L., Carman, D.S., Carnahan, B., Chen, S., Cole, P.L., Coleman, A., Collins, P., Coltharp, P., Cords, D., Corvisiero, P., Crabb, D., Crannell, H., Crede, V., Cummings, J.P., Dashyan, N., De Masi, R., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Degtyarenko, P.V., Denizli, H., Dennis, L., Deur, A., Dharmawardane, K.V., Dhuga, K.S., Dickson, R., Djalali, C., Dodge, G.E., Donnelly, J., Doughty, D., Dragovitsch, P., Dugger, M., Dytman, S., Dzyubak, O.P., Egiyan, H., Egiyan, K.S., Fassi, L.E., Empl, A., Eugenio, P., Fatemi, R., Fedotov, G., Feldman, G., Feuerbach, R.J., Forest, T.A., Funsten, H., Garçon, M., Gilfoyle, G.P., Giovanetti, K.L., Girod, F.X., Goetz, J.T., Golovatch, E., Gonenc, A., Gothe, R.W., Griffioen, K.A., Guidal, M., Guillo, M., Guler, N., Guo, L., Gyurjyan, V., Hadjidakis, C., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hakobyan, R.S., Hardie, J., Hassall, N., Heddle, D., Hersman, F.W., Hicks, K., Hleiqawi, I., Hu, J., Huertas, M., Hyde, C.E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D.G., Ishkhanov, B.S., Isupov, E.L., Ito, M.M., Jenkins, D., Jo, H.S., Joo, K., Juengst, H.G., Kalantarians, N., Kellie, J.D., Khandaker, M., Kim, K.Y., Kim, K., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F.J., Klusman, M., Kossov, M., Kramer, L.H., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, J., Kuhn, S.E., Kuleshov, S.V., Kuznetsov, M., Lachniet, J., Laget, J.M., Langheinrich, J., Lawrence, D., Lima, A.C.S., Livingston, K., Lu, H.Y., Lukashin, K., MacCormick, M., Manak, J.J., Markov, N., McAleer, S., McKinnon, B., McNabb, J.W.C., Mecking, B.A., Mestayer, M.D., Meyer, C.A., Mibe, T., Mikhailov, K., Minehart, R., Mirazita, M., Miskimen, R., Mokeev, V., Moriya, K., Morrow, S.A., Moteabbed, M., Mueller, J., Mutchler, G.S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Napolitano, J., Nasseripour, R., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Niczyporuk, B.B., Niroula, M.R., Niyazov, R.A., Nozar, M., O’Rielly, G.V., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A.I., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Paterson, C., Philips, S.A., Pierce, J., Pivnyuk, N., Pocanic, D., Pogorelko, O., Polli, E., Popa, I., Pozdniakov, S., Preedom, B.M., Price, J.W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Qin, L.M., Raue, B.A., Riccardi, G., Ricco, G., Ripani, M., Ritchie, B.G., Ronchetti, F., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Rowntree, D., Rubin, P.D., Sabatié, F., Salamanca, J., Salgado, C., Santoro, J.P., Sapunenko, V., Schumacher, R.A., Serov, V.S., Sharabian, Y.G., Shaw, J., Shvedunov, N.V., Skabelin, A.V., Smith, E.S., Smith, L.C., Sober, D.I., Sokhan, D., Stavinsky, A., Stepanyan, S.S., Stokes, B.E., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I.I., Strauch, S., Suleiman, R., Taiuti, M., Taylor, S., Tedeschi, D.J., Thoma, U., Thompson, R., Tkabladze, A., Tkachenko, S., Tur, C., Ungaro, M., Vineyard, M.F., Vlassov, A.V., Watts, D.P., Weinstein, L.B., Weygand, D.P., Williams, M., Wolin, E., Wood, M.H., Yegneswaran, A., Yun, J., Yurov, M., Zana, L., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., and Zhao, Z.W.
Subjects:Q Science > QC Physics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physical Review C
ISSN:0556-2813
ISSN (Online):1089-490X

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