Measuerment of generalized form factors near the pion threshold in high $Q^2$ region with CLAS

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Abstract

The recent development of experimental techniques allow us to study threshold pion production in high-energy experiments and particularly, electro-production with photon virtuality $Q^2$ in a few $\rm{GeV^2}$ range. The experiments with fine energy resolution make a major step to come close to the production threshold to suppress the P-wave contribution ($M_{1+}$). The recent prediction based on the Light-Cone Sum Rule (LCSR), one can calculate the hadron form factors in terms of distribution amplitudes that approach perturbative Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (pQCD) without other non-perturbative parameters in high energy regime. The extraction of the generalized form factors near the pion threshold are estimated by the S- wave multipole dominance in the LCSR framework. We extracted the generalized form factors for the first time in the exclusive channel ( $ep \to en\pi^+$) using CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. The kinematic ranges are from $2.05\;\rm{GeV^2}$ to $4.5\;\rm{GeV^2}$ for $Q^2$ and $1.11\;\rm{GeV}$ to $1.15\;\rm{GeV}$ for the invariant mass range in the $n\pi^+$ system.. Preliminary results will be presented and compared with the calculation from LCSR, MAID and multipole analysis.

Authors

  • Kijun Park

    Jefferson Lab, University of South Carolina