DAPNIA-07-274 |
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Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off the Neutron |
M. Mazouz et al (C. Munoz Camacho, M. Beaumel, M. Garçon, P.A.M. Guichon, F. Sabatié) |
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$({\\vec e},e\'\\gamma)X$ cross section measured at $Q^2$=1.9 GeV$^2$ and $x_B$=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. |