Measurement of the beam-spin azimuthal asymmetry associated with deeply-virtual Compton scattering

Airapetian, A. and Akopov, N. and Akopov, Z. and Amarian, M. and Achenauer, E. C. and Avakian, H. and Avakian, R. and Avetissian, A. and Avetissian, E. and Bailey, P. and Bains, B. and Baturin, V. and Baumgarten, C. and Beckmann, M. and Belostotski, S. and Bernreuther, S. and Bianchi, N. and Boettcher, H. and Borissov, A. and Bouhali, O. and Bouwhuis, M. and Brack, J. and Brauksiepe, S. and Brueckner, W. and Bruell, A. and Brunn, I. and Bulten, H. J. and Capitani, G. P. and Chumney, P. and Cisbani, E. and Ciullo, G. and Court, G. R. and Dalpiaz, P. F. and De Leo, R. and De Nardo, L. and De Sanctis, E. and De Schepper, D. and Devitsin, E. and Huberts, P. K. A. D. and Di Nezza, P. and Dueren, M. and Ehrenfried, M. and Elbakian, G. and Ellinghaus, F. and Ely, J. and Fabbri, R. and Fantoni, A. and Fechtchenko, A. and Felawka, L. and Filippone, B. W. and Fischer, H. and Fox, B. and Franz, J. and Frullani, S. and Gaerber, Y. and Garibaldi, F. and Garutti, E. and Gavrilov, G. and Gharibyan, V. and Golendukhin, A. and Graw, G. and Grebeniouk, O. and Green, P. W. and Greeniaus, L. G. and Gute, A. and Haeberli, W. and Hafidi, K. and Hartig, M. and Hasch, D. and Heesbeen, D. and Heinsius, F. H. and Henoch, M. and Hertenberger, R. and Hesselink, W. H. A. and Hofman, G. and Holler, Y. and Holt, R. J. and Hommez, B. and Iarygin, G. and Izotov, A. and Jackson, H. E. and Jgoun, A. and Jung, P. and Kaiser, R. and Kanesaka, J. and Kinney, E. and Kisselev, A. and Kitching, P. and Kobayashi, H. and Koch, N. and Koenigsmann, K. and Kolster, H. and Korotkov, V. and Kotik, E. and Kozlov, V. and Krauss, B. and Krivokhijine, V. G. and Kyle, G. and Lagamba, L. and Laziev, A. and Lenisa, P. and Liebing, P. and Lindemann, T. and Lorenzon, W. and Maas, A. and Makins, N. C. R. and Marukyan, H. and Masoli, F. and McAndrew, M. and McIlhany, K. and Meissner, F. and Menden, F. and Meyners, N. and Mikloukho, O. and Miller, C. A. and Milner, R. and Muccifora, V. and Mussa, R. and Nagaitsev, A. and Nappi, E. and Naryshkin, Y. and Nass, A. and Negodaeva, K. and Nowak, W. D. and Oganessyan, K. and O'Neill, T. G. and Owen, B. R. and Pate, S. F. and Potashov, S. and Potterveld, D. H. and Raithel, M. and Rakness, G. and Rappoport, V. and Redwine, R. and Reggiani, D. and Reolon, A. R. and Rith, K. and Robinson, D. and Rostomyan, A. and Ruh, M. and Ryckbosch, D. and Sakemi, Y. and Sanjiev, I. and Sato, F. and Savin, I. and Scarlett, C. and Schaefer, Andreas and Schill, C. and Schmidt, F. and Schnell, G. and Schueler, K. P. and Schwind, A. and Seibert, J. and Seitz, B. and Shibata, T. A. and Shutov, V. and Simani, M. C. and Simon, A. and Sinram, K. and Steffens, E. and Steijer, J. J. M. and Stewart, J. and Stoesslein, U. and Suetsugu, K. and Taroian, S. and Terkulov, A. and Tessarin, S. and Thomas, E. and Tipton, B. and Tytgat, M. and Urciuoli, G. M. and van den Brand, J. F. J. and van Steenhoven, G. and van Vyver, R. and van Hunen, J. J. and Vetterli, M. C. and Vikhrov, V. and Vincter, M. G. and Visser, J. and Weiskopf, C. and Wendland, J. and Wilbert, J. and Wise, T. and Yen, S. and Yoneyama, S. and Zohrabian, H. (2001) Measurement of the beam-spin azimuthal asymmetry associated with deeply-virtual Compton scattering. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 87 (18): 182001. ISSN 0031-9007, 1079-7114

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Abstract

The beam-spin asymmetry in hard electroproduction of photons has been measured. The data have been accumulated by the HERMES experiment at DESY using the HERA 27.6 GeV longitudinally polarized positron beam and an unpolarized hydrogen-gas target. The asymmetry in the azimuthal distribution of the produced photons in the angle phi relative to the lepton scattering plane was determined with respect to the helicity state of the incoming positron beam. The beam-spin analyzing power in the sin phi moment was measured to be -0.23 +/- 0.04(stat) +/- 0.03(syst) in the missing-mass range below 1.7 GeV. The observed asymmetry is attributed to the interference of the Bethe-Heitler and deeply virtual Compton scattering processes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: NUCLEON; ELECTROPRODUCTION;
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Schäfer > Group Andreas Schäfer
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 01 Dec 2021 15:00
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2021 15:00
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/41020

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