1. Measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering off Helium-4 with CLAS at Jefferson Lab
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Dupré, R., Hattawy, M., Baltzell, N. A., Bültmann, S., De Vita, R., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Egiyan, H., Girod, F. X., Guidal, M., Hafidi, K., Jenkins, D., Liuti, S., Perrin, Y., Stepanyan, S., Torayev, B., Voutier, E., Amaryan, M. J., Armstrong, W. R., Atac, H., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biselli, A. S., Bondi, M., Bossù, F., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W. J., Bulumulla, D., Burkert, V., Carman, D. S., Carvajal, J. C., Caudron, M., Celentano, A., Chatagnon, P., Chesnokov, V., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Clary, B. A., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Costantini, G., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Diehl, S., Djalali, C., Ehrhart, M., Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fegan, S., Filippi, A., Forest, T. A., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Hakobyan, H., Hayward, T. B., Hicks, K., Hobart, A., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Isupov, E. L., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Joosten, S., Keller, D., Khachatryan, G., Khanal, A., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Kripko, A., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Lanza, L., Livingston, K., Kabir, M. L., Leali, M., Lenisa, P., MacGregor, I. J. D., Marchand, D., Markov, N., Mascagna, V., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V. I., Neupane, K., Niccolai, S., O'Connell, T. R., Osipenko, M., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L. L., Paremuzyan, R., Pasyuk, E., Payette, D., Phelps, W., Pivnyuk, N., Pogorelko, O., Poudel, J., Prok, Y., Ripani, M., Ritman, J., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Rowley, J., Sabatié, F., Salgado, C., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R., Sergeyeva, V., Sharabian, Y., Shrestha, U., Sokhan, D., Soto, O., Sparveris, N., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Tyler, N., Ungaro, M., Venturelli, L., Voskanyan, H., Vossen, A., Watts, D., Wei, K., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Wishart, R., Wood, M. H., Yale, B., Zachariou, N., and Zhang, J.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We report on the measurement of the beam spin asymmetry in the deeply virtual Compton scattering off $^4$He using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab using a 6 GeV longitudinally polarized electron beam incident on a pressurized $^4$He gaseous target. We detail the method used to ensure the exclusivity of the measured reactions, in particular the upgrade of CLAS with a radial time projection chamber to detect the low-energy recoiling $^4$He nuclei and an inner calorimeter to extend the photon detection acceptance at forward angles. Our results confirm the theoretically predicted enhancement of the coherent ($e^4$He$~\to~e'$$^4$He$'\gamma'$) beam spin asymmetries compared to those observed on the free proton, while the incoherent ($e^4$He$~\to~e'$p$'\gamma'$X$'$) asymmetries exhibit a 30$\%$ suppression. From the coherent data, we were able to extract, in a model-independent way, the real and imaginary parts of the only $^4$He Compton form factor, $\cal H_A$, leading the way toward 3D imaging of the partonic structure of nuclei.
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- 2021
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