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Phys. Rev. C 60, 054611 (1999) [4 pages]

Measuring longitudinal amplitudes for electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons using recoil polarization in parallel kinematics

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James J. Kelly
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Received 17 June 1999; published 6 October 1999

We propose a new method for measuring longitudinal amplitudes for electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons that exploits a symmetry relation for polarization observables in parallel kinematics. This polarization technique does not require variation of electron scattering kinematics and avoids the major sources of systematic errors in Rosenbluth separation.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.60.054611
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.60.054611
PACS:
13.60.Le, 13.88.+e, 11.80.Cr, 14.20.Gk