H1prelim-05-017

Measurement of DVCS at HERA

Reference Final plots for the final paper, Spring 2005
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Contact L. Schoeffel, L. Favart
Abstract A measurement is presented of elastic deeply virtual Compton scattering gamma^* p ightarrow \photon p made using e^+ p collision data corresponding to a luminosity of 46.5 pb^-1, taken with the H1 detector at HERA. The cross section is measured as a function of the photon virtuality, Q2, the invariant mass of the gamma-p system, W, and for the first time, differentially in the squared momentum transfer at the proton vertex, t, in the kinematic range 2 < Q2 < 80 GeV^2, 30 < W < 140 GeV and |t| < 1 GeV^2. QCD based calculations at next-to-leading order using generalized parton distributions can describe the data, as can colour dipole model predictions.
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