Compton Scattering from Hydrogen Between 5 and 17 GeV

Abstract

Measurements have been made on Compton scattering for photon energies between 5 and 17 GeV and $t$ values from -0.06 to -1.1 ${\left(\frac{\mathrm{GeV}}{c}\right)}^2$. The data were obtained by performing a coincidence between the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 1.6-$\frac{\mathrm{GeV}}{c}$ spectrometer and a Lucite shower counter. The scattering appears diffractive out to high $t$ values, but the cross sections seem not to be in good agreement with the prediction of a strict vector-meson-dominance model.