Measurements of ep --> e' pi+ pi- p' cross sections with CLAS at 1.40 GeV<2.0 GeV and 2.0 GeV^(2) < Q^(2) < 5.0 GeV^(2)

Isupov, E. L.; Burkert, V. D.; Carman, D. S.; Gothe, R. W.; Hicks, K.; Ishkhanov, B. S.; Mokeev, V. I.; Adhikari, K. P.; Adhikari, S.; Adikaram, D.; Akbar, Z.; Amaryan, M. J.; Anefalos Pereira, S.; Avakian, H.; Ball, J.; Baltzell, N. A.; Battaglieri, M.; Batourine, V.; Bedlinskiy, I.; Biselli, A. S.; Briscoe, W. J.; Brooks, W. K.; Bã¼ltmann, S.; Cao, T.; Celentano, A.; Charles, G.; Chetry, T.; Ciullo, G.; Clark, L.; Colaneri, L.; Cole, P. L.; Contalbrigo, M.; Cortes, O.; Crede, V.; D'Angelo, A.; Dashyan, N.; De Vita, R.; De Sanctis, E.; Deur, A.; Djalali, C.; Dupre, R.; El Alaoui, A.; El Fassi, L.; Elouadrhiri, L.; Eugenio, P.; Fedotov, G.; Fersch, R.; Filippi, A.; Fleming, J. A.; Forest, T. A.; Garã§on, M.; Gavalian, G.; Ghandilyan, Y.; Gilfoyle, G. P.; Giovanetti, K. L.; Girod, F. X.; Glazier, D. I.; Gleason, C.; Golovatch, E.; Griffioen, K. A.; Guidal, M.; Guo, L.; Hafidi, K.; Hakobyan, H.; Hanretty, C.; Harrison, N.; Hattawy, M.; Heddle, D.; Holtrop, M.; Hughes, S. M.; Ilieva, Y.; Ireland, D. G.; Jenkins, D.; Jiang, H.; Joo, K.; Joosten, S.; Keller, D.; Khachatryan, G.; Khandaker, M.; Kim, A.; Kim, W.; Klein, A.; Klein, F. J.; Kubarovsky, V.; Kuleshov, S. V.; Kunkel, M.; Lanza, L.; Lenisa, P.; Livingston, K.; H. Y., Lu; Macgregor, I. J. D.; Markov, N.; Mckinnon, B.; Mineeva, T.; Mirazita, M.; Montgomery, R. A.; Movsisyan, A.; Munevar, E.; Munoz Camacho, C.; Murdoch, G.; Nadel-Turonski, P.; Niccolai, S.; Niculescu, G.; Niculescu, I.; Osipenko, M.; Paolone, M.; Paremuzyan, R.; Park, K.; Pasyuk, E.; Phelps, W.; Pogorelko, O.; Price, J. W.; Procureur, S.; Prok, Y.; Protopopescu, D.; Raue, B. A.; Ripani, M.; Riser, D.; Ritchie, B. G.; Rizzo, A.; Sabatiã©, F.; Salgado, C.; Schumacher, R. A.; Sharabian, Y. G.; Simonyan, A.; Skorodumina, Iu.; Smith, G. D.; Sokhan, D.; Sparveris, N.; Stankovic, I.; Strakovsky, I. I.; Strauch, S.; Taiuti, M.; Tian, Ye; Torayev, B.; Trivedi, A.; Ungaro, M.; Voskanyan, H.; Voutier, E.; Walford, N. K.; Wei, X.; Wood, M. H.; Zachariou, N.; Zhang, J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.96.025209

This paper reports new exclusive cross sections for e p --> e' pi+ pi- p' using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. These results are presented for the first time at photon virtualities 2.0GeV^(2)<5.0GeV^(2) in the center-of-mass energy range 1.4 GeV < 2.0 GeV, which covers a large part of the nucleon resonance region. Using a model developed for the phenomenological analysis of electroproduction data, we see strong indications that the relative contributions from the resonant cross sections at W<1.74 GeV increase with Q^(2). These data considerably extend the kinematic reach of previous measurements. Exclusive e p --> e' pi+ pi- p' cross section measurements are of particular importance for the extraction of resonance electrocouplings in the mass range above 1.6 GeV.