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We present expressions for electromagnetic helicity amplitudes and spin observables for any elastic spin 1/2 - spin 1/2 scattering to first order in QED. In particular all electromagnetic helicity amplitudes and spin observables for elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. S. O'Brien , N. H. Buttimore

We investigate polarization observables in hyperon-nucleon scattering by decomposing scattering amplitudes into spin-space tensors, where each component describes scattering by corresponding spin-dependent interactions, so that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ishikawa , M. Tanifuji , Y. Iseri , Y. Yamamoto

We calculate two-photon exchange amplitude for the elastic electron-pion scattering in the dispersion-relation inspired approach, including both elastic and inelastic contributions. The latter was modelled as a sum of \rho and b_1(1235)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dmitry Borisyuk , Alexander Kobushkin

We present results for all leading-twist azimuthal spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering due to T-even transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions on the basis of a light-cone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-31 S. Boffi , A. V. Efremov , B. Pasquini , P. Schweitzer

General expressions for all parity-conserving polarization observables of elastic electron-nucleon scattering in the one-photon exchange approximation are derived for a general frame of reference, i.e.\ not assumming scattering off a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 H. Arenhövel

Using the Coulomb Eikonal Phase associated with a transversely polarized nucleon, we calculate the azimuthal single spin asymmetry of unpolarized electrons elastically scattered from a transversely polarized nucleon target. The azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Tareq Alhalholy , Matthias Burkardt

We evaluate the two-photon exchange correction to the unpolarized cross section in the elastic muon-proton scattering within dispersion relations. One of the six independent invariant amplitudes requires a subtraction. We fix the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-28 Oleksandr Tomalak , Marc Vanderhaeghen

Higher-order QED effects play an important role in precision measurements of nucleon elastic form factors in electron scattering. Here we introduce a two-photon exchange QED correction to the parity-violating polarization asymmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei V. Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson

Two-photon exchange contributions have potentially broad ranging impact on several charged lepton scattering measurements. Previously believed to be extremely small, based in part on comparisons of positron scattering and electron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 John Arrington

We study the target normal spin asymmetry for the reaction $ep \to ep$ at electron energy up to few GeV in the laboratory frame. The asymmetry is proportional to the imaginary part of the reaction scattering amplitude. To estimate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dmitry Borisyuk , Alexander Kobushkin

Transverse single-spin asymmetries in inclusive deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering can be generated through multiphoton exchange between the leptonic and the hadronic part of the process. Here we consider the two-photon exchange, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Metz , D. Pitonyak , A. Schaefer , M. Schlegel , W. Vogelsang , J. Zhou

The up-down asymmetry in transversally polarized electron proton scattering is induced by the interference between one and two photon exchange amplitudes. Inelastic intermediate hadronic states (different from one-proton state) of the two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kuraev , E. Tomasi-Gustafsson , S. Bakmaev , V. Bytev , Yu. Bystritskiy

I discuss inclusive and semi-inclusive lepton-hadron scattering emphasizing the importance of polarization in order to study various single or double spin asymmetries and the importance of particle identification and angular resolution in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. J. Mulders

We show that, to a very good approximation, the ratio of the spin-flip to the non-flip parts of the elastic proton-nucleus amplitude is the same as for proton-nucleon scattering at very high energy. The result is used to do a realistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 B. Z. Kopeliovich , T. L. Trueman

We report precision determinations of the beam normal single spin asymmetries ($A_n$) in the elastic scattering of 0.95 and 2.18~GeV electrons off $^{12}$C, $^{40}$Ca, $^{48}$Ca, and $^{208}$Pb at very forward angles where the most detailed…

The processes of lepton-nucleon scattering, including ones with both polarized beams, at high energy provide relevant information about interaction and particles structure, allowing to analyze nucleon spin structure. As energy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-21 S. N. Sevbitov , T. V. Shishkina

Two-photon exchange contributions to elastic electron-proton scattering cross sections are evaluated in a simple hadronic model including the finite size of the proton. The corrections are found to be small in magnitude, but with a strong…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. G. Blunden , W. Melnitchouk , J. A. Tjon

The work concerns the quasielastic charged current neutrino-neutron and antineutrino-proton interactions. Single, double, and triple spin asymmetries are computed and analyzed. The spin asymmetries are sensitive to the axial form factor of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Krzysztof M. Graczyk , Beata E. Kowal