Near-threshold neutral pion electroproduction at high momentum transfers and generalized form factors

We report the measurement of near threshold neutral pion electroproduction cross sections and the extraction of the associated structure functions on the proton in the kinematic range $Q^2$ from 2 to 4.5 GeV$^2$ and $W$ from 1.08 to 1.16 GeV. These measurements allow us to access the dominant pion-n...

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Veröffentlicht in:Phys. Rev. C 2013-04, Vol.87 (4), Article 045205
Hauptverfasser: Khetarpal, P., Stoler, P., Aznauryan, I. G., Kubarovsky, V., Adhikari, K. P., Adikaram, D., Aghasyan, M., Amaryan, M. J., Anderson, M. D., Anefalos Pereira, S., Anghinolfi, M., Avakian, H., Baghdasaryan, H., Ball, J., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Batourine, V., Bedlinskiy, I., Biselli, A. S., Bono, J., Boiarinov, S., Briscoe, W. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Carman, D. S., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., De Sanctis, E., Deur, A., Djalali, C., Doughty, D., Dugger, M., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., El Alaoui, A., El Fassi, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Fleming, J. A., Fradi, A., Gabrielyan, M. Y., Garçon, M., Gevorgyan, N., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. X., Goetz, J. T., Gohn, W., Golovatch, E., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guegan, B., Guidal, M., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hanretty, C., Harrison, N., Hicks, K., Ho, D., Holtrop, M., Hyde, C. E., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Ishkhanov, B. S., Isupov, E. L., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Keller, D., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Koirala, S., Kubarovsky, A., Kuleshov, S. V., Kvaltine, N. D., Lewis, S., Livingston, K., Lu, H. Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Mao, Y., Martinez, D., Mayer, M., McKinnon, B., Meyer, C. A., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Montgomery, R. A., Moutarde, H., Munevar, E.
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Zusammenfassung:We report the measurement of near threshold neutral pion electroproduction cross sections and the extraction of the associated structure functions on the proton in the kinematic range $Q^2$ from 2 to 4.5 GeV$^2$ and $W$ from 1.08 to 1.16 GeV. These measurements allow us to access the dominant pion-nucleon s-wave multipoles $E_{0+}$ and $S_{0+}$ in the near-threshold region. In the light-cone sum-rule framework (LCSR), these multipoles are related to the generalized form factors $G_1^{\pi^0 p}(Q^2)$ and $G_2^{\pi^0 p}(Q^2)$. The data are compared to these generalized form factors and the results for $G_1^{\pi^0 p}(Q^2)$ are found to be in good agreement with the LCSR predictions, but the level of agreement with $G_2^{\pi^0 p}(Q^2)$ is poor.
ISSN:0556-2813
2469-9985
1089-490X
2469-9993
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.87.045205