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Jun 4 – 5, 2025
Jefferson Lab
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Extracting $x$-Dependent GPDs with Normalizing Flow

Jun 4, 2025, 11:30 AM
30m
CC F224-225 & Zoom (Jefferson Lab)

CC F224-225 & Zoom

Jefferson Lab

12000 Jefferson Ave. Newport News, VA 23606

Speaker

Zhite Yu (Jefferson Lab)

Description

Obtaining the $x$-dependent generalized parton distributions (GPDs) is essential for advancing our understanding of hadron tomography. However, this goal has been hindered by the limited sensitivity of most well-known experimental processes, such as deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) and time-like Compton scattering (TCS). In this talk, I will compare these traditional processes with new ones that offer enhanced sensitivity to the $x$-dependence. By employing a pixelated GPD construction using a normalizing flow neural network, we can visualize and quantitatively examine the point-by-point sensitivity encoded in the physical processes.

Author

Zhite Yu (Jefferson Lab)

Presentation materials