Measurement of Single- and Double-Spin Asymmetries in Deep Inelastic Pion Electroproduction with a Longitudinally Polarized Target

Avakian, H.; Bosted, P.; Burkert, V.; Elouadrhiri, L.; Adhikari, K.; Aghasyan, M.; Amaryan, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Baghdasaryan, H.; Ball, J.; Battaglieri, M.; Bedlinskiy, I.; Biselli, A.; Branford, D.; Briscoe, W.; Brooks, W.; Carman, D.; Casey, L.; Cole, P.; Collins, P.; Crabb, D.; Crede, V.; D’Angelo, A.; Daniel, A.; Dashyan, N.; De Vita, R.; De Sanctis, E.; Deur, A.; Dey, B; Dhamija, S.; Dickson, R.; Djalali, C.; Dodge, G.; Doughty, D.; Dupre, R.; El Alaoui, A.; Eugenio, P.; Fegan, S.; Fersch, R.; Forest, T.; Fradi, A.; Gabrielyan, M.; Gavalian, G.; Gevorgyan, N.; Gilfoyle, G.; Giovanetti, K.; Girod, F.; Gohn, W.; Gothe, R.; Griffioen, K.; Guidal, M.; Guler, N.; Guo, L.; Hafidi, K.; Hakobyan, H.; Hanretty, C.; Hassall, N.; Heddle, D.; Hicks, K.; Holtrop, M.; Ilieva, Y.; Ireland, D.; Isupov, E.; Jawalkar, S.; Jo, H.; Joo, K.; Keller, D.; Khandaker, M.; Khetarpal, P.; Kim, W.; Klein, A.; Klein, F.; Konczykowski, P.; Kubarovsky, V.; Kuhn, S.; Kuleshov, S.; Kuznetsov, V.; Livingston, K.; Lu, H.; Markov, N.; Mayer, M.; Martinez, D.; McAndrew, J.; McCracken, M.; McKinnon, B.; Meyer, C.; Mineeva, T; Mirazita, M.; Mokeev, V.; Moreno, B.; Moriya, K.; Morrison, B.; Moutarde, H.; Munevar, E.; Nadel-Turonski, P.; Nasseripour, R.; Niccolai, S.; Niculescu, G.; Niculescu, I.; Niroula, M.; Osipenko, M.; Ostrovidov, A.; Paremuzyan, R.; Park, K.; Park, S.; Pasyuk, E.; Anefalos Pereira, S.; Perrin, Y.; Pisano, S.; Pogorelko, O.; Price, J.; Procureur, S.; Prok, Y.; Protopopescu, D.; Raue, B.; Ricco, G.; Ripani, M.; Rosner, G.; Rossi, P.; Sabatié, F.; Saini, M.; Salamanca, J.; Salgado, C.; Schumacher, R.; Seder, E.; Seraydaryan, H.; Sharabian, Y.; Sober, D.; Sokhan, D.; Stepanyan, S.; Stepanyan, S.; Stoler, P.; Strauch, S.; Suleiman, R.; Taiuti, M.; Tedeschi, D.; Tkachenko, S.; Ungaro, M.; Vernarsky, B.; Vineyard, M.; Voutier, E.; Watts, D.; Weinstein, L.; Weygand, D.; Wood, M.; Zhang, J.; Zhao, B.; Zhao, Z.

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Suleiman, R.

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Abstract

We report the first measurement of the transverse momentum dependence of double-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive production of pions in deep-inelastic scattering off the longitudinally polarized proton. Data have been obtained using a polarized electron beam of 5.7 GeV with the CLAS detector at the Jefferson Lab (JLab). Modulations of single spin asymmetries over the azimuthal angle between lepton scattering and hadron production planes [phi] have been measured over a wide kinematic range in Bjorken x and virtual photon squared four-momentum Q2 [Q superscript 2]. A significant nonzero sin2 [phi] single spin asymmetry was observed for the first time indicating strong spin-orbit correlations for transversely polarized quarks in the longitudinally polarized proton.

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2010-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64958

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science

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Physical review letters

Publisher

American Physical Society

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Avakian, H. et al. “Measurement of Single- and Double-Spin Asymmetries in Deep Inelastic Pion Electroproduction with a Longitudinally Polarized Target.” Physical Review Letters 105.26 (2010) : n. pag. © 2010 The American Physical Society

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