First-time measurement of Timelike Compton Scattering

Abstract

We present the first measurement of the Timelike Compton Scattering process, $\gamma p\to p^{\prime }{\gamma }^{\ast }({\gamma }^{\ast }\to e^{+}{e}^{-})$, obtained with the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab. The photon beam polarization and the decay lepton angular asymmetries are reported in the range of timelike photon virtualities $2.25<Q^{\prime 2}<9$ GeV${}^2$, squared momentum transferred $0.1<-t<0.8$ GeV${}^2$, and average total center-of-mass energy squared $s=14.5$ GeV${}^2$. The photon beam polarization asymmetry, similar to the beam-spin asymmetry in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, is sensitive to the imaginary part of the Compton Form Factors and provides a way to test the universality of the Generalized Parton Distributions. The angular asymmetry of the decay leptons accesses the real part of the Compton Form Factors and thus the D-term in the parametrization of the Generalized Parton Distributions.

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