1998/07/16 by Alan M. Nathan, Nathan, Alan M.
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9807397
Contribution to the Jefferson Lab Workshop on Physics & Instrumentation with 6-12 GeV Beams; 4 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 1998/07/16 · openalex publication_date 1998/07/16 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We discuss the physics motivation for a program of Real Compton Scattering on the proton in the regime where both the incident energy and the transverse momentum transfer are large. It is shown that such a program can test which of the various hard scattering mechanisms is dominant and can allow a measurement of a new generalized form factor that is sensitive to both the flavor and spin structure of the proton. It is further shown that the measurements are experimentally feasible using existing or already planned equipment up to incident energies of 12 GeV.