1. Deep Exclusive Electroproduction of π0 at High Q2 in the Quark Valence Regime
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N. H. Saylor, D. Bulumulla, Wouter Deconinck, E. Pooser, L. Ye, B. Crowe, Weidong Li, B. P. Quinn, Y. Huang, Douglas Higinbotham, E. Fuchey, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, Y. Zhao, S. A. Wood, M. K. Jones, Darko Androić, Jie Liu, A. J. Sarty, Z. Ye, K. Hamilton, E. McClellan, M. E. Christy, A. Liyanage, J. Bane, F. Georges, O. F. Obretch, C. Gal, S. F. Ali, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, P. M. King, C. Palatchi, F. Hauenstein, J. Roche, T. Averett, P. E. Reimer, J. P. Chen, G. M. Urciuoli, Franco Meddi, M. H. Shabestari, C. Fanelli, K. A. Aniol, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, B. Aljawrneh, Shams Rahman, C. E. Hyde, R. Beminiwattha, X. Yan, Andrew Puckett, E. Voutier, E. Cisbani, S. J. Nazeer, Chunhui Chen, C. Desnault, M. Carmignotto, O. Glamazdin, J. Castellano, Z. Ahmed, L. Ou, F. De Persio, Olfred Hansen, S. Allison, J. R. M. Annand, Simon Širca, T. Gautam, D. Nguyen, B. Sawatzky, G. M. Huber, S. Danagoulian, J. C. Cornejo, Tanja Horn, C. M. Jen, F. Tortorici, T. Su, S. Alsalmi, Yicheng Wang, G. Hamad, B. Duran, Kalyan Allada, Maxime Defurne, R. Michaels, Hongjun Liu, D. Gaskell, Juliette Mammei, David Hamilton, Pete Markowitz, L. A. Thorne, E. J. Brash, V. M. Gray, C. Munoz Camacho, D. Adikaram, T. W. Danley, Y. Tian, K. Park, Ping Zhu, L. S. Myers, M. N. H. Rashad, Rolf Ent, R. A. Montgomery, D. Biswas, S. Malace, W. Henry, A. Sun, M. Dlamini, H. Atac, N. Israel, R. Trotta, X. Bai, V. Bellini, N. Ton, R. Spies, Alexandre Camsonne, A. Stefanko, C. Gu, K. Bartlett, K. Jin, B. A. Clary, Kondo Gnanvo, M. Nycz, T. Holmstrom, P.-J. Lin, Shanfeng Li, C. Yero, T. Hague, Taya Chetry, Jie Zhang, J. Bericic, J. Campbell, A. Mkrtchyan, Nikos Sparveris, K. Mesik, I. Sapkota, Vladimir Nelyubin, A. Shahinyan, N. Compton, D. Di, Eliahu Cohen, S. Sooriyaarachchilage, Cynthia Keppel, H. S. Ko, A. Kabir, V. A. Punjabi, D. G. Meekins, S. Barcus, V. Khachatryan, G. B. Franklin, P. Nadel-Turonski, N. Nuruzzaman, Chao Peng, G. R. Smith, H. F. Ibrahim, B. Karki, M. Duer, H. Albataineh, A. Subedi, S. Park, B. Schmookler, B. Pandey, Vincent Sulkosky, J. A. Magee, B. Waidyawansa, and S. Covrig Dusa
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Quark ,Physics ,Particle physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Momentum transfer ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Sigma ,Virtual particle ,Parton ,01 natural sciences ,Helicity ,Pion ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Nucleon - Abstract
We report measurements of the exclusive neutral pion electroproduction cross section off protons at large values of $x_B$ (0.36, 0.48 and 0.60) and $Q^2$ (3.1 to 8.4 GeV$^2$) obtained from Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment E12-06-014. The corresponding structure functions $d\sigma_L/dt+\epsilon d\sigma_T/dt$, $d\sigma_{TT}/dt$, $d\sigma_{LT}/dt$ and $d\sigma_{LT'}/dt$ are extracted as a function of the proton momentum transfer $t-t_{min}$. The results suggest the amplitude for transversely polarized virtual photons continues to dominate the cross-section throughout this kinematic range. The data are well described by calculations based on transversity Generalized Parton Distributions coupled to a helicity flip Distribution Amplitude of the pion, thus providing a unique way to probe the structure of the nucleon.
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- 2021
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