Author
Guegan, Baptiste
Other Contributors
Guidal, Michel; Voutier, Eric; Kubarovsky, Valery; Espagnon, Bruno; Napolitano, Jim; Giedt, Joel;
Date Issued
2012-12
Subject
Physics
Degree
PhD;
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Abstract
The Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) provide a new description of the nucleon structure in terms of its elementary constituents, the quarks and the gluons. The GPDs give access to a unified picture of the nucleon, correlating the information obtained from the measurements of the Form Factors and the Parton Distribution Functions. They describe the correlation between the transverse position and the longitudinal momentum fraction of the partons in the nucleon. Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS), the electroproduction of a real photon on a single quark of the nucleon eN → e'N'γ, is the most straightforward exclusive process allowing access to the GPDs. The DVCS process interferes with the Bethe-Heitler (BH) process, in which the real photon is emitted by either the incoming or the scattered electron instead of the nucleon. A dedicated experiment to study DVCS with the CLAS detector of Jefferson Lab has been carried out using a 5.883 GeV polarized electron beam and an unpolarized hydrogen target, allowing to collect DVCS events in the widest kinematic range ever explored in the valence region : 1 < Q^2 < 4.6 GeV^2, 0.1 < x_B < 0.58, 0.09 < -t < 3 GeV^2. We will present preliminary results on the extraction of the unpolarized and the difference of polarized DVCS cross sections. We will show a preliminary extraction of the GPDs using the latest fitting code procedure on our data, and a preliminary interpretation of the results.;
Description
December 2012; School of Science
Department
Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy;
Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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