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Measurement of the beam-recoil polarization in low-energy virtual Compton scattering from the proton

  • L. Doria
  • , P. Janssens
  • , P. Achenbach
  • , C. Ayerbe Gayoso
  • , D. Baumann
  • , I. Bensafa
  • , M. Benali
  • , J. Beričič
  • , J. C. Bernauer
  • , R. Böhm
  • , D. Bosnar
  • , L. Correa
  • , N. D'Hose
  • , X. Defaÿ
  • , M. Ding
  • , M. O. Distler
  • , H. Fonvieille
  • , J. Friedrich
  • , J. M. Friedrich
  • , G. Laveissière
  • M. Makek, J. Marroncle, H. Merkel, M. Mihovilovič, U. Müller, L. Nungesser, B. Pasquini, J. Pochodzalla, O. Postavaru, M. Potokar, D. Ryckbosch, S. Sánchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, M. Seimetz, S. Širca, G. Tamas, R. Van De Vyver, L. Van Hoorebeke, A. Van Overloop, Th Walcher, M. Weinriefer
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • TRIUMF
  • Ghent University
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • University of Zagreb
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • Technical University of Munich
  • University of Pavia
  • Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest
  • University of Ljubljana

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Abstract

Double-polarization observables in the reaction e - p→e′p - ′γ have been measured at Q2=0.33(GeV/c)2. The experiment was performed at the spectrometer setup of the A1 Collaboration using the 855 MeV polarized electron beam provided by the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) and a recoil proton polarimeter. From the double-polarization observables the structure function PLT is extracted for the first time, with the value (-15.4±3.3(stat.)-2.4+1.5(syst.))GeV-2, using the low-energy theorem for virtual Compton scattering. This structure function provides a hitherto unmeasured linear combination of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton.

Original languageEnglish
Article number054307
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume92
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 16 2015

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