Search for a two-photon exchange contribution to inclusive deep-inelastic scattering

Airapetian, A. and Akopov, N. and Akopov, Z. and Aschenauer, E. C. and Augustyniak, W. and Avakian, R. 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 Bowles, J. and Bryzgalov, V. and Burns, J. and Capitani, G. P. and Cisbani, E. and Ciullo, G. and Contalbrigo, M. and Dalpiaz, P. F. and Deconinck, W. and De Nardo, L. and De Sanctis, E. and Diefenthaler, M. and Di Nezza, P. 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, G. 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 Karyanz, G. and Keri, T. and Kinney, E. and Kisselev, A. and Korotkov, V. and Kozlov, V. and Kravchenko, P. and Lagamba, L. and Lamb, R. and Lapikas, L. and Lehmann, I. and Lenisa, P. 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 Manfre, L. and Mao, Y. and Marianski, B. and de la Ossa, A. Martinez and Marukyan, H. and Miller, C. A. and Miyachi, Y. and Movsisyan, A. and Muccifora, V. and Murray, M. and Mussgiller, A. and Naryshkin, Y. and Nass, A. and Negodaev, M. and Nowak, W. -D. and Pappalardo, L. L. and Perez-Benito, R. and Raithel, M. 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 Steffens, E. and Steijger, J. J. M. and Stenzel, H. and Stewart, J. and Stinzing, F. and Taroian, S. and Terkulov, A. and Trzcinski, A. and Tytgatk, 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 Wang, S. and Yaschenko, S. and Ye, H. and Ye, Z. and Yu, W. and Zeiler, D. and Zihlmann, B. and Zupranski, P. (2010) Search for a two-photon exchange contribution to inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 682 (4-5). pp. 351-354. ISSN 0370-2693, 1873-2445

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Abstract

The transverse-target single-spin asymmetry for inclusive deep-inelastic scattering with effectively un-polarized electron and positron beams off a transversely polarized hydrogen target was measured, with the goal of searching for a two-photon exchange signal in the kinematic range 0.007 < x(B) < 0.9 and 0.25 GeV2 < Q(2) < 20 GeV2. In two separate regions Q(2) > 1 GeV2 and Q(2) < 1 GeV2, and for both electron and positron beams, the asymmetries are found to be consistent with zero within statistical and systematic uncertainties, which are of order 10(-3) for the asymmetries integrated over xB. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: POSITRON SCATTERING; NUCLEON SCATTERING; ELECTRON-PROTON; HYDROGEN; INVARIANCE; VIOLATION; DEUTERIUM; EXCHANGE; TARGET;
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 10 Aug 2020 09:24
Last Modified: 10 Aug 2020 09:24
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/25323

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