Measurement of the beam spin asymmetry of e→p→epη in the deep-inelastic regime with CLAS

  • B. Zhao
  • , A. Kim
  • , K. Joo
  • , I. Bedlinskiy
  • , W. Kim
  • , V. Kubarovsky
  • , M. Ungaro
  • , S. Adhikari
  • , Z. Akbar
  • , G. Angelini
  • , H. Avakian
  • , J. Ball
  • , N. A. Baltzell
  • , L. Barion
  • , M. Bashkanov
  • , M. Battaglieri
  • , V. Batourine
  • , A. S. Biselli
  • , S. Boiarinov
  • , W. J. Briscoe
  • W. K. Brooks, V. D. Burkert, D. S. Carman, A. Celentano, P. Chatagnon, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, L. Clark, B. A. Clary, P. L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, V. Crede, A. D'Angelo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, E. De Sanctis, M. Defurne, A. Deur, S. Diehl, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, P. Eugenio, A. Filippi, T. A. Forest, G. Gavalian, Y. Ghandilyan, G. P. Gilfoyle, F. X. Girod, E. Golovatch, R. W. Gothe, K. A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, L. Guo, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, N. Harrison, M. Hattawy, D. Heddle, K. Hicks, M. Holtrop, Y. Ilieva, D. G. Ireland, B. S. Ishkhanov, E. L. Isupov, D. Jenkins, H. S. Jo, S. Johnston, M. L. Kabir, D. Keller, G. Khachatryan, M. Khachatryan, M. Khandaker, A. Klein, F. J. Klein, S. E. Kuhn, S. V. Kuleshov, L. Lanza, P. Lenisa, K. Livingston, I. J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, N. Markov, B. McKinnon, C. A. Meyer, Z. E. Meziani, M. Mirazita, V. Mokeev, R. A. Montgomery, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Nadel-Turonski, S. Niccolai, G. Niculescu, M. Osipenko, A. I. Ostrovidov, M. Paolone, R. Paremuzyan, K. Park, O. Pogorelko, J. W. Price, Y. Prok, D. Protopopescu, M. Ripani, A. Rizzo, G. Rosner, P. Rossi, F. Sabatié, C. Salgado, R. A. Schumacher, Y. G. Sharabian, Iu Skorodumina, G. D. Smith, D. Sokhan, N. Sparveris, S. Stepanyan, I. I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, M. Taiuti, J. A. Tan, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, R. Wang, X. Wei, M. H. Wood, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, Z. W. Zhao

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Abstract

The beam spin asymmetry of the exclusive pseudoscalar channel e→p→epη was measured for the first time in the deep-inelastic regime (W>2 GeV/c2 and Q2>1 GeV2/c2) using a longitudinally polarized 5.78 GeV electron beam at Jefferson Lab with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. The data were accumulated in 144 four-dimensional bins of Q2, xB, −t and ϕ over a wide kinematic range, where ϕ is the azimuthal angle between the lepton and hadron scattering planes, The measured azimuthal dependence with large amplitudes of the sin⁡ϕ moments is a clear indication of a substantial contribution to the polarized cross-section from transversely polarized virtual photons. In the framework of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) this contribution is expressed via longitudinal-transverse interference between chiral-even and chiral-odd GPDs. The experimental results are compared to the existing theoretical models demonstrating the sensitivity to the product of chiral-odd and chiral-even GPDs and provide new constraints to the existing GPD parameterizations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)426-431
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume789
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Feb 2019

Keywords

  • Chiral-odd generalized parton distributions
  • CLAS collaboration
  • Deeply Virtual Meson Production
  • Nucleon structure

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