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First Measurement of Timelike Compton Scattering


Authors listChatagnon, P.; Niccolai, S.; Stepanyan, S.; Amaryan, M. J.; Angelini, G.; Armstrong, W. R.; Atac, H.; Gayoso, C. Ayerbe; Baltzell, N. A.; Barion, L.; Bashkanov, M.; Battaglieri, M.; Bedlinskiy, I; Benmokhtar, F.; Bianconi, A.; Biondo, L.; Biselli, A. S.; Bondi, M.; Bossu, F.; Boiarinov, S.; Briscoe, W. J.; Brooks, W. K.; Bulumulla, D.; Burkert, V. D.; Carman, D. S.; Carvajal, J. C.; Caudron, M.; Celentano, A.; Chetry, T.; Ciullo, G.; Clark, L.; Cole, P. L.; Contalbrigo, M.; Costantini, G.; Crede, V; D'Angelo, A.; Dashyan, N.; Defurne, M.; De Vita, R.; Deur, A.; Diehl, S.; Djalali, C.; Dupre, R.; Egiyan, H.; Ehrhart, M.; El Alaoui, A.; El Fassi, L.; Elouadrhiri, L.; Fegan, S.; Fersch, R.; Filippi, A.; Gavalian, G.; Ghandilyan, Y.; Gilfoyle, G. P.; Girod, F. X.; Glazier, D., I; Golubenko, A. A.; Gothe, R. W.; Gotra, Y.; Griffioen, K. A.; Guidal, M.; Guo, L.; Hakobyan, H.; Hattawy, M.; Hayward, T. B.; Heddle, D.; Hobart, A.; Holtrop, M.; Hyde, C. E.; Ilieva, Y.; Ireland, D. G.; Isupov, E. L.; Jo, H. S.; Joo, K.; Kabir, M. L.; Keller, D.; Khachatryan, G.; Khanal, A.; Kim, A.; Kim, W.; Kripko, A.; Kubarovsky, V; Kuhn, S. E.; Lanza, L.; Leali, M.; Lee, S.; Lenisa, P.; Livingston, K.; MacGregor, I. J. D.; Marchand, D.; Marsicano, L.; Mascagna, V; McKinnon, B.; McLauchlin, C.; Migliorati, S.; Mirazita, M.; Mokeev, V; Montgomery, R. A.; Camacho, C. Munoz; Nadel-Turonski, P.; Naidoo, P.; Neupane, K.; O'Connell, T. R.; Osipenko, M.; Ouillon, M.; Pandey, P.; Paolone, M.; Pappalardo, L. L.; Paremuzyan, R.; Pasyuk, E.; Phelps, W.; Pogorelko, O.; Poudel, J.; Price, J. W.; Prok, Y.; Raue, B. A.; Reed, T.; Ripani, M.; Rizzo, A.; Rossi, P.; Rowley, J.; Sabatie, F.; Schmidt, A.; Segarra, E. P.; Sharabian, Y. G.; Shirokov, E., V; Shrestha, U.; Sokhan, D.; Soto, O.; Sparveris, N.; Strakovsky, I. I.; Strauch, S.; Tyler, N.; Tyson, R.; Ungaro, M.; Vallarino, S.; Venturelli, L.; Voskanyan, H.; Vossen, A.; Voutier, E.; Watts, D. P.; Wei, K.; Wei, X.; Wishart, R.; Yale, B.; Zachariou, N.; Zhang, J.; Zhao, Z. W.

Publication year2021

JournalPhysical Review Letters

Volume number127

Issue number26

ISSN0031-9007

eISSN1079-7114

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.262501

PublisherAmerican Physical Society


Abstract
We present the first measurement of the timelike Compton scattering process, gamma p -> p'gamma* (gamma*-> e(+)e(-)) obtained with the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab. The photon beam polarization and the decay lepton angular asymmetries are reported in the range of timelike photon virtualities 2.25 < Q'(2 )< 9 GeV2, squared momentum transferred 0.1 < -t < 0.8 GeV2, and average total center-of-mass energy squared s = 14.5 GeV2. The photon beam polarization asymmetry, similar to the beam-spin asymmetry in deep virtual Compton scattering, is sensitive to the imaginary part of the Compton form factors and provides a way to test the universality of the generalized parton distributions. The angular asymmetry of the decay leptons accesses the real part of the Compton form factors and thus the D-term in the parametrization of the generalized parton distributions.



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Harvard Citation styleChatagnon, P., Niccolai, S., Stepanyan, S., Amaryan, M., Angelini, G., Armstrong, W., et al. (2021) First Measurement of Timelike Compton Scattering, Physical Review Letters, 127(26), Article 262501. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.262501

APA Citation styleChatagnon, P., Niccolai, S., Stepanyan, S., Amaryan, M., Angelini, G., Armstrong, W., Atac, H., Gayoso, C., Baltzell, N., Barion, L., Bashkanov, M., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biondo, L., Biselli, A., Bondi, M., Bossu, F., ...Zhao, Z. (2021). First Measurement of Timelike Compton Scattering. Physical Review Letters. 127(26), Article 262501. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.262501



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