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Cross sections and beam asymmetries for $\vec{e} p \rightarrow e n\pi^+$
in the nucleon resonance region for $1.7 \le Q^2 \le 4.5$ GeV$^2$
November 2007, to be published in Physical Review C
Cross sections and beam asymmetries for $\vec{e} p \rightarrow e n\pi^+$
in the nucleon resonance region for $1.7 \le Q^2 \le 4.5$ GeV$^2$
K. Park, V. D. Burkert, W. Kim, I. G. Aznauryan, R. Minehart, L. C. Smith,
K. Joo, L. Elouadrhiri, G. Adams, M. J. Amaryan, P. Ambrozewicz, M. Anghinolfi, G. Asryan,
H. Avakian, H. Bagdasaryan, N. Baillie, J. P. Ball, N. A. Baltzell, S. Barrow, V. Batourine,
M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, M. Bektasoglu, M. Bellis, N. Benmouna, B. L. Berman, A. S. Biselli,
L. Blaszczyk, B. E. Bonner, C. Bookwalter, S. Bouchigny, S. Boiarinov, R. Bradford, D. Branford,
W. J. Briscoe, W. K. Brooks, S. B\"{u}ltmann, C. Butuceanu, J. R. Calarco, S. L. Careccia, D. S. Carman,
L. Casey, A. Cazes, S. Chen, L. Cheng, P. L. Cole, P. Collins, P. Coltharp,
D. Cords, P. Corvisiero, D. Crabb, V. Crede, J. P. Cummings, D. Dale, N. Dashyan,
R. De Masi, R. De Vita, E. De Sanctis, P. V. Degtyarenko, H. Denizli, L. Dennis, A. Deur,
S. Dhamija, K. V. Dharmawardane, K. S. Dhuga, R. Dickson, C. Djalali, G. E. Dodge, J. Donnelly,
D. Doughty, M. Dugger, S. Dytman, O. P. Dzyubak, H. Egiyan, K. S. Egiyan, L. El Fassi,
P. Eugenio, R. Fatemi, G. Fedotov, G. Feldman, R. J. Feuerbach, T. A. Forest, A. Fradi,
H. Funsten, M. Y. Gabrielyan, M. Gar\c{c}on, G. Gavalian, N. Gevorgyan, G. P. Gilfoyle, K. L. Giovanetti,
F. X. Girod, J. T. Goetz, W. Gohn, E. Golovatch, A. Gonenc, C. I. O. Gordon, R. W. Gothe,
L. Graham, K. A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, M. Guillo, N. Guler, L. Guo, V. Gyurjyan,
C. Hadjidakis, K. Hafidi, K. Hafnaoui, H. Hakobyan, R. S. Hakobyan, C. Hanretty, J. Hardie,
N. Hassall, D. Heddle, F. W. Hersman, K. Hicks, I. Hleiqawi, M. Holtrop, C. E. Hyde-Wright,
Y. Ilieva, D. G. Ireland, B. S. Ishkhanov, E. L. Isupov, M. M. Ito, D. Jenkins, H. S. Jo,
J. R. Johnstone, H. G. Juengst, N. Kalantarians, D. Keller, J. D. Kellie, M. Khandaker, K. Y. Kim,
A. Klein, F. J. Klein, A. V. Klimenko, M. Klusman, M. Kossov, Z. Krahn, L. H. Kramer,
V. Kubarovsky, J. Kuhn, S. E. Kuhn, S. V. Kuleshov, V. Kuznetsov, J. Lachniet, J. M. Laget,
J. Langheinrich, D. Lawrence, T. Lee, Ji Li, A. C. S. Lima, K. Livingston, H. Y. Lu,
K. Lukashin, M. MacCormack, N. Markov, P. Mattione, S. McAleer, B. McKinnon, J. W. C. McNabb,
B. A. Mecking, S. Mehrabyan, J. J. Melone, M. D. Mestayer, C. A. Meyer, T. Mibe, K. Mikhailov,
M. Mirazita, R. Miskimen, V. Mokeev, L. Morand, B. Moreno, K. Moriya, S. A. Morrow,
M. Moteabbed, J. Mueller, E. Munevar, G. S. Mutchler, P. Nadel-Turonski, R. Nasseripour, S. Niccolai,
G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu, B. B. Niczyporuk, M. R. Niroula, R. A. Niyazov, M. Nozar, G. V. O'Rielly,
M. Osipenko, A. I. Osrtrovidov, S. Park, E. Pasyuk, C. Paterson, S. Anefalos Pereira, S. A. Philips,
J. Pierce, N. Pivnyuk, D. Pocanic, O. Pogorelko, E. Polli, I. Popa, S. Pozdniakov,
B. M. Preedom, J. W. Price, Y. Prok, D. Protopopescu, L. M. Qin, B. A. Raue, G. Riccardi,
G. Ricco, M. Ripani, B. G. Ritchie, F. Ronchetti, G. Rosner, P. Rossi, D. Rowntree,
P. D. Rubin, F. Sabati\'{e}, M. S. Saini, J. Salamanca, C. Salgado, J. P. Santoro, V. Sapunenko,
D. Schott, R. A. Schumacher, V. S. Serov, Y. G. Sharabian, D. Sharov, J. Shaw, N. V. Shvedunov,
A. V. Skabelin, E. S. Smith, D. I. Sober, D. Sokhan, A. Stavinsky, S. S. Stepanyan, S. Stepanyan,
B. E. Stokes, P. Stoler, I. I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, R. Suleiman, M. Taiuti, T. Takeuchi,
D. J. Tedeschi, A. Tkabladze, S. Tkachenko, L. Todor, C. Tur, M. Ungaro, M. F. Vineyard,
A. V. Vlassov, D. P. Watts, L. B. Weinstein, D. P. Weygand, M. Williams, E. Wolin, M. H. Wood,
A. Yegneswaran, J. Yun, M. Yurov, L. Zana, B. Zhang, J. Zhang, B. Zhao,
and
Z. W. Zhao
The exclusive electroproduction process $\vec{e}p \to e^\prime n \pi^+$
was measured in the range of the photon virtuality $Q^2 = 1.7 -
4.5~\rm{GeV^2}$, and the invariant mass range for the $n\pi^+$ system of
$W = 1.15 - 1.7~\rm{GeV}$ using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer.
For the first time, these kinematics are probed in exclusive $\pi^+$
production from protons with nearly full coverage in the azimuthal and
polar angles of the $n\pi^+$ center-of-mass system. The $n\pi^+$ channel
has particular sensitivity to the isospin $\frac{1}{2}$ excited nucleon
states, and together with the $p\pi^0$ final state will serve to
determine the transition form factors of a large number of resonances.
The largest discrepancy between these results and present modes was seen
in the $\sigma_{LT'}$ structure function. In this experiment, 31,295
cross section and 4,184 asymmetry data points were measured. Because of
the large volume of data, only a reduced set of structure functions and
Legendre polynomial moments can be presented that are obtained in
model-independent fits to the differential cross sections.
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