Deeply virtual compton scattering off the neutron
M Mazouz1, A Camsonne, C Muñoz Camacho
1LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS/IN2P3, INPG, F-38026 Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
The present experiment exploits the interference between the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) and the Bethe-Heitler processes to extract the imaginary part of DVCS amplitudes on the neutron and on the deuteron from the helicity-dependent D(e,e'gamma)X cross section measured at Q2=1.9 GeV2 and xB=0.36. We extract a linear combination of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) particularly sensitive to E_{q}, the least constrained GPD. A model dependent constraint on the contribution of the up and down quarks to the nucleon spin is deduced.
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