Published January 29, 2007 | Version v1
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Compton Scattering Cross Section on the Proton at High Momentum Transfer

Description

Cross-section values for Compton scattering on the proton were measured at 25 kinematic settings over the range s = 5-11 and -t = 2-7 GeV2 with statistical accuracy of a few percent. The scaling power for the s-dependence of the cross section at fixed center of mass angle was found to be 8.0 +/- 0.2, strongly inconsistent with the prediction of perturbative QCD. The observed cross section values are in fair agreement with the calculations using the handbag mechanism, in which the external photons couple to a single quark

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Report number
JLAB-PHY--07-613

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC05-84ER40150
Funding organization
USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER) (United States)
Secondary number(s)
DOE/ER--40150-4216