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Exclusive pi+ production at HERMES

C. Hadjidakis, D. Hasch, E. Thomas

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0405078

Abstract

Hard exclusive production in deep inelastic lepton scattering provides access to the unknown Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon. At HERMES, different observables for hard exclusive pi+ production have been measured with a 27.6 GeV positron beam on an internal hydrogen gas target. First preliminary results for the unpolarized ep->enpi+ total cross section for 1.5<Q2<10.5 GeV2 and for 0.02<x<0.8 are presented and compared to GPD calculations. The final result for the single-spin asymmetry using a longitudinal polarized target is also reported.

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