Single-spin azimuthal asymmetry in exclusive electroproduction of pi(+) mesons on transversely polarized protons

Airapetian, A. and Akopov, N. and Akopov, Z. and Aschenauer, E. C. and Augustyniak, W. and Avetissian, A. and Avetisyan, E. and Ball, B. and Belostotski, S. and Bianchi, N. and Blok, H. P. and Boettcher, H. and Bonomo, C. and Borissov, A. and Bryzgalov, V. and Burns, J. and Capiluppi, M. and Capitani, G. P. and Cisbani, E. and Ciullo, G. and Contalbrigo, M. and Dalpiaz, P. F. and Deconinck, W. and De Leo, R. and De Nardo, L. and De Sanctis, E. and Diefenthaler, M. and Di Nezza, P. and Dreschler, J. and Dueren, M. and Ehrenfried, M. and Elbakian, G. and Ellinghaus, F. and Fabbri, R. and Fantoni, A. and Felawka, L. and Frullani, S. and Gabbert, D. and Gapienko, V. and Garibaldi, F. and Gharibyan, V. and Giordano, F. and Gliske, S. and Hadjidakis, C. and Hartig, M. and Hasch, D. and Hill, G. and Hillenbrand, A. and Hoek, M. and Holler, Y. and Hristova, I. and Imazu, Y. and Ivanilov, A. and Jackson, H. E. and Jo, H. S. and Joosten, S. and Kaiser, R. and Keri, T. and Kinney, E. and Kisselev, A. and Kobayashi, N. and Korotkov, V. and Kravchenko, P. and Lagamba, L. and Lamb, R. and Lapikas, L. and Lehmann, I. and Lenisa, P. and Linden-Levy, L. A. and Ruiz, A. Lopez and Lorenzon, W. and Lu, X. -G. and Lu, X-R. and Ma, B. -Q. and Mahon, D. and Makins, N. C. R. and Manaenkov, S. I. and Manfre, L. and Mao, Y. and Marianski, B. and de la Ossa, B. Martinez and Marukyan, H. and Miller, C. A. and Miyachi, Y. and Movsisyan, A. and Muccifora, V. and Murray, M. and Mussgiller, A. and Nappi, E. and Naryshkin, Y. and Nass, A. and Nowak, W. -D. and Pappalardo, L. L. and Perez-Benito, R. and Reimer, P. E. and Reolon, A. R. and Riedl, C. and Rith, K. and Rosner, G. and Rostomyan, A. and Rubin, J. and Ryckbosch, D. and Salomatin, Y. and Sanftl, F. and Schaefer, A. and Schnell, G. and Schueler, K. P. and Seitz, B. and Shibata, T. -A. and Shutov, V. and Stancari, M. and Statera, M. and Steijger, J. J. M. and Stenzel, H. and Stewart, J. and Taroian, S. and Terkulov, A. and Trzcinski, A. and Tytgat, M. and Vandenbroucke, A. and van der Nat, P. B. and Van Haarlem, Y. and Van Hulse, C. and Varanda, M. and Veretennikov, D. and Vikhrov, V. and Vilardi, I. and Vogel, C. and Wang, S. and Yaschenko, S. and Ye, H. and Ye, Z. and Yen, S. and Yu, W. and Zeiler, D. and Zihlmann, B. and Zupranski, P. (2010) Single-spin azimuthal asymmetry in exclusive electroproduction of pi(+) mesons on transversely polarized protons. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 682 (4-5). pp. 345-350. ISSN 0370-2693, 1873-2445

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Abstract

Exclusive electroproduction of pi(+) mesons was studied by scattering 27.6 GeV positrons or electrons off a transversely polarized hydrogen target. The single-spin azimuthal asymmetry with respect to target polarization was measured as a function of the Mandelstam variable t, the Bjorken scaling variable x(B), and the virtuality Q(2) of the exchanged photon. The extracted Fourier components of the asymmetry were found to be consistent with zero, except one that was found to be large and that involves interference of contributions from longitudinal and transverse virtual photons. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: GENERALIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS; PHYSICS EVENT GENERATION; IMPACT PARAMETER SPACE; TO-LEADING ORDER; SCATTERING; HYDROGEN; NUCLEON; TARGET; LIMIT; RING;
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 10 Aug 2020 09:21
Last Modified: 10 Aug 2020 09:21
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/25322

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