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Transverse spin effects in hadron-pair production from semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

T. NegriniM. ChiossoL. SchmittM. ZiembickiK. KlimaszewskiAndres CicuttinG. ReicherzR. PankninN.s. RossiyskayaE. BurtinV.f. KonstantinovA. AustregesiloA. AustregesiloC. EliaMurray MoinesterS. Dalla TorreA. GrassoK. KönigsmannM.g. SapozhnikovD.v. PeshekhonovP.d. EversheimH. FischerAlan D. MartinAchim RichterF. MassmannG. PesaroF. TessarottoE. RondioO.m. KouznetsovS. RamosM. StolarskiC. HeßI. GnesiJohannes BernhardA. GuskovA. MaggioraS. NeubertP. SznajderMiroslav SulcF. HinterbergerYu. KisselevS. GrabmüllerV.n. KolosovM. BettinelliAndrea BressanE. PerevalovaA. LehmannM. OstrickChristian SchillLaura SilvaAram KotzinianR. WindmoldersJ. PochodzallaR. SulejI. UmanR. JoostenP. BordaloD. KangO.p. GavrichtchoukL. SinhaT. MatsudaV. DuicP. JasinskiS.s. DasguptaZ.v. KroumchteinM. V. ZavertyaevS. KoblitzR. BertiniAndrea FerreroJ. Ter WolbeekK. BickerK. BickerC. MarchandW. EyrichG. PiraginoNour MakkeJ. BielingJ. BarthL. LauserS. UhlM. GiorgiCh. HöppnerYu.v. MikhailovM. QuaresmaGerhard K. MallotMichal DziewieckiO.yu. DenisovTakahiro IwataA. VossenK. KondoK. KondoY. BedferS. GerassimovS. GerassimovN. HorikawaSergey DonskovS. TessaroK. SchmidtNorihiro DoshitaNorihiro DoshitaA. N. SissakianW.-d. NowakA. MorrealeP. SchiavonM. FingerM. ViriusYu.a. KhokhlovR. GushterskiT. GuthörlJ.m. FriedrichJ. BisplinghoffK. ZarembaS. HuberVladimir NikolaenkoE. ZemlyanichkinaF. HaasR. GeyerSoumen PaulG.i. SmirnovFabrice GautheronM. A. FaesslerM. SluneckaW. WiślickiB. GobboYu. AlexandrovBakur ParsamyanC. QuintansA. SrnkaV.a. PolyakovA. KorzenevV.yu. AlexakhinN. I. ZhuravlevA. ZvyaginR. BirsaJ. LichtenstadtL. WangG. SbrizzaiL. DharaFederica SozziR. GazdaS. DasC. BraunB. BadelekS. SchopfererFranco BradamanteB. KetzerA. FilinD. NeyretA. NagaytsevF. BalestraA. AmorosoK. SchönningAlexey AntonovA. BravarS. SosioA. MutterA. MutterS.-u. ChungL. G. TkatchevS. TakekawaR. JahnMatthias SchottJ. MarzecG. D. AlexeevM. KrämerFrançois HerrmannW. DünnweberC. FrancoA. MannN. Du Fresne Von HohenescheN. Du Fresne Von HohenescheT. SchlüterS. PlatchkovK. KurekA.a. LednevN.v. VlassovGünter BaumO.yu. ShevchenkoS. LevoratoE. RoccoS. SarkarF. NerlingF. KunneA. PadeeG.b. PontecorvoT. NagelJ. PretzD. ChabernyR. GarfagniniC. AdolphT. MichigamiOleg V. IvanovH. WollnyJean-francois RajotteD.i. RyabchikovA.s. NunesA. SandaczD. PanzieriE. M. KabußI.a. SavinA.v. EfremovM.g. AlekseevI. KonorovI. KonorovF.h. HeinsiusA.g. OlshevskyA. MagnonA. MielechA. MielechS. IshimotoFrank KleinJ. PolakJ.h. KoivuniemiV. RapatskyYu. IvanshinS. GoertzS. GoertzV.d. SamoylenkoB. GrubeD. Von HarrachMaxence VandenbrouckeG.v. KhaustovW. MeyerMaria Liz CrespoN. Dʼhose

subject

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsCOMPASS; SIDIS; two hadron azimuthal asymmetries; transversityHadronNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesCOMPASSSIDIS01 natural sciencesHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentNuclear physicsHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)0103 physical sciences010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimenttransversityPhysicsLarge Hadron ColliderMuonSpectrometerta114010308 nuclear & particles physicsScatteringtwo hadron azimuthal asymmetrietwo hadron azimuthal asymmetriesHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyDeep inelastic scatteringPair productionDistribution functionHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentParticle Physics - Experiment

description

First measurements of azimuthal asymmetries in hadron-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering of muons on transversely polarised ^6LiD (deuteron) and NH_3 (proton) targets are presented. The data were taken in the years 2002-2004 and 2007 with the COMPASS spectrometer using a muon beam of 160 GeV/c at the CERN SPS. The asymmetries provide access to the transversity distribution functions, without involving the Collins effect as in single hadron production. The sizeable asymmetries measured on the NH_ target indicate non-vanishing u-quark transversity and two-hadron interference fragmentation functions. The small asymmetries measured on the ^6LiD target can be interpreted as indication for a cancellation of u- and d-quark transversities.

10.1016/j.physletb.2012.05.015http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.05.015