Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements from Deeply Virtual Eta Production
ORAL
Abstract
We present for the first time measurements of the Beam Spin Asymmetry (BSA) from Deeply Virtual Eta Production. With the e1-DVCS experiment at JLAB we have access to Deep Virtual pseudo-scalar Meson Production and consequently to the properties of the polarized Generalized Parton Distributions(GPDs) and/or Regge phenomenology. The experiment was run with the CLAS detector during the spring of 2005, using a 5.7 GeV longitudinally polarized electron beam impinging on a liquid Hydrogen target. Preliminary results show a large (15\%) and constant (in Q2, t, x) BSA indicating a non zero longitudinal-transverse interference in contrast with the GPD assumptions.
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