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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 73, 2014
MENU 2013 – 13th International Conference Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon
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| Article Number | 06009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Few-Nucleon Systems | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147306009 | |
| Published online | 09 June 2014 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147306009
Coherent deeply virtual Compton scattering off 3He and neutron generalized parton distributions
Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli studi di Perugia and INFN sezione di Perugia, via A. Pascoli, 06100 Perugia, Italy
a e-mail: matteo.rinaldi@pg.infn.it
b e-mail: sergio.scopetta@pg.infn.it
Published online: 9 June 2014
It has been recently proposed to study coherent deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) off 3He nuclei to access neutron generalized parton distributions (GPDs). In particular, it has been shown that, in Impulse Approximation (IA) and at low momentum transfer, the sum of the quark helicity conserving GPDs of 3He, H and E, is dominated by the neutron contribution. This peculiar result makes the 3He target very promising to access the neutron information. We present here the IA calculation of the spin dependent GPD 
of 3He. Also for this quantity the neutron contribution is found to be the dominant one, at low momentum transfer. The known forward limit of the IA calculation of
, yielding the polarized parton distributions of 3He, is correctly recovered. The extraction of the neutron information could be anyway non trivial, so that a procedure, able to take into account the nuclear effects encoded in the IA analysis, is proposed. These calculations, essential for the evaluation of the coherent DVCS cross section asymmetries, which depend on the GPDs H,E and , represent a crucial step for planning possible experiments at Jefferson Lab.
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