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Fig. 1: Imaginary (left) and real (right) part of H\(\left({\boldsymbol{\xi }},{\boldsymbol{t}}){\boldsymbol{.}}\right)\)

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The experimental data used in this work are publicly available at http://clasweb.jlab.org/physicsdb. A Fourier transformed version of these data is available at https://github.com/openhep/dterm18.

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The code used for the analysis is available at https://github.com/openhep/dterm18. This code is to be used together with the neural network software package PyBrain13 and the software implementation of formulas for DVCS cross-sections by Belitsky et al.14.

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I thank V. D. Burkert, F. X. Girod, D. Müller, M. Polyakov and P. Schweitzer for discussions. This work is supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under project number 8799 and by the QuantiXLie Center of Excellence through grant KK.01.1.1.01.0004.

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Kumerički, K. Measurability of pressure inside the proton. Nature 570, E1–E2 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1211-6

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