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A measurement of the Q^2, W and t dependences of deeply virtual Compton scattering at HERA

arXiv:0812.2517 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/108

Abstract

Deeply virtual Compton scattering has been measured in e^+p collisions at HERA with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 61.1 pb^-1. Cross sections are presented as a function of the photon virtuality, Q^2, and photon-proton centre-of-mass energy, W, for a wide region of the phase space, Q^2>~1.5 GeV^2 and 40<W<170 GeV. A subsample of events in which the scattered proton is measured in the leading proton spectrometer, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 31.3 pb^-1, is used for the first direct measurement of the differential cross section as a function of t, where t is the square of the four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex.

20 pages, 5 fiugures, 4 tables v4: DESY number corrected, tables corrected, added bibliography and ref.5 corrected, minor changes to the text

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