First-time measurement of Timelike Compton Scattering

P. Chatagnon, S. Niccolai, S. Stepanyan +146

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 b…