Exclusive π⁰ electroproduction at W>2 GeV with CLAS

Bedlinskiy, I. et al. (2014) Exclusive π⁰ electroproduction at W>2 GeV with CLAS. Physical Review C, 90(2), 025205. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.90.025205)

Abstract

Exclusive neutral-pion electroproduction (ep→e′p′π0) was measured at Jefferson Lab with a 5.75-GeV electron beam and the CLAS detector. Differential cross sections d⁴σ/dtdQ²dxBdϕπ and structure functions σT+εσL,σTT, and σLTas functions of t were obtained over a wide range of Q² and xB. The data are compared with Regge and handbag theoretical calculations. Analyses in both frameworks find that a large dominance of transverse processes is necessary to explain the experimental results. For the Regge analysis it is found that the inclusion of vector meson rescattering processes is necessary to bring the magnitude of the calculated and measured structure functions into rough agreement. In the handbag framework, there are two independent calculations, both of which appear to roughly explain the magnitude of the structure functions in terms of transversity generalized parton distributions.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and Watts, Dr Daniel and Protopopescu, Dr Dan and MacGregor, Professor Douglas and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Livingston, Dr Kenneth and Anderson, Mr Mark and Ireland, Professor David
• Authors: Bedlinskiy, I., Kubarovsky, V., Niccolai, S., Stoler, P., Adhikari, K. P., Anderson, M. D., Anefalos Pereira, S., Avakian, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Batourine, V., Biselli, A. S., Boiarinov, S., Bono, J., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Chandavar, S., 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., Doughty, D., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fleming, J. A., Forest, T. A., Garillon, B., Garçon, M., Gavalian, G., Gevorgyan, N., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guegan, B., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Harrison, N., Hattawy, M., Hicks, K., Holtrop, M., Ireland, D.G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jenkins, D., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, A., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kuhn, S. E., Kuleshov, S. V., Lenisa, P., Levine, W. I., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Moody, C. I., Moutarde, H., Movsisyan, A., Munoz Camacho, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Niculescu, I., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Pappalardo, L. L., Park, K., Park, S., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, E., Phelps, W., Phillips, J. J., Pisano, S., Pogorelko, O., Price, J. W., Prok, Y., Protopopescu, D., Procureur, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Raue, B. A., Ripani, M., Ritchie, B. G., Rizzo, A., Rossi, P., Roy, P., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schott, D., Schumacher, R. A., Seder, E., Senderovich, I., Sharabian, Y. G., Simonyan, A., Smith, G. D., Sober, D. I., Sokhan, D., Stepanyan, S. S., Strauch, S., Sytnik, V., Tang, W., Tian, Y., Ungaro, M., Vlassov, A. V., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Walford, N. K., Watts, D., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Yurov, M., Zachariou, N., Zana, L., 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: 0556-2813
• ISSN (Online): 1089-490X