arXiv · nucl-th/9701042
Lepton-Pair Production in Virtual Compton Scattering off the Proton
Abstract
We show that lepton-pair production in Virtual Compton Scattering offers, through interference with the well-known Bethe-Heitler process, a sensitive probe to learn the longitudinal response of resonances and the electromagnetic nucleon form factors. This interference can be measured directly in terms of an asymmetry. The role of off-shell effects in the N-N-$γ$ vertices is investigated as well. An additional N-N-$γ-γ$ contact term in the amplitude, included to ensure gauge invariance of the model, cancels a substantial part of the off-shell effects.
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A. Yu. Korchin, O. Scholten, F. de Jong. 1997-01-21. Lepton-Pair Production in Virtual Compton Scattering off the Proton. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00389-4
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