Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS

Abstract

We report on the first measurement of cross sections for exclusive deeply virtual pion electroproduction off the proton, $ep\to e^{\prime }n{\pi }^{+}$, above the resonance region at backward pion center-of-mass angles. The ${\phi }_{\pi }^{\ast }$-dependent cross sections were measured, from which we extracted three combinations of structure functions of the proton. Our results are compatible with calculations based on nucleon-to-pion transition distribution amplitudes (TDAs) and shed new light on nucleon structure.

7 pages, 6figures

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