2007/01/30 by Areg Danagoulian, A. Danagoulian, V. Mamyan +89 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ex #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.98.152001
published as Phys.Rev.Lett.98:152001,2007 · 5 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2007/01/30 · openalex publication_date 2007/04/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Cross-section values for Compton scattering on the proton were measured at 25 kinematic settings over the range s=5-11 and -t=2-7 GeV2 with a statistical accuracy of a few percent. The scaling power for the s dependence of the cross section at fixed center-of-mass angle was found to be 8.0+/-0.2, strongly inconsistent with the prediction of perturbative QCD. The observed cross-section values are in fair agreement with the calculations using the handbag mechanism, in which the external photons couple to a single quark.