1. Observation of Beam Spin Asymmetries in the Process ep→e′π+π−X with CLAS12
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G. Niculescu, D. Bulumulla, G. Ciullo, Aditya R. Khanal, A. El Alaoui, S. Niccolai, E. L. Isupov, D. S. Carman, F. X. Girod, Nikos Sparveris, K. A. Griffioen, D. G. Ireland, V. I. Mokeev, M. Contalbrigo, V. Crede, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, Sung-Sik Lee, X. Wei, S. Boiarinov, Andrea Bianconi, P. Lenisa, C. Dilks, Fatiha Benmokhtar, O. Soto, T. B. Hayward, M. Osipenko, R. Paremuzyan, L. Marsicano, Maxime Defurne, B. A. Clary, Latifa Elouadrhiri, A. Movsisyan, N. Tyler, N. Markov, P. L. Cole, N. Dashyan, K. Hicks, I. J. D. MacGregor, S. Strauch, D. I. Glazier, V. P. Kubarovsky, Michael Paolone, Krishna Neupane, H. Hakobyan, F. Bossu, R. Tyson, J. Ritman, Eugene Pasyuk, R. De Vita, D. Marchand, H. S. Jo, H. Avakian, Eric Voutier, L. Lanza, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, A. A. Golubenko, H. Atac, H. Voskanyan, G. Costantini, W. J. Briscoe, L. Barion, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, A. Vossen, M. Guidal, A. D'Angelo, Dustin Keller, M Ehrhart, P. Naidoo, T. Chetry, D. P. Watts, P. Chatagnon, Y. Prok, U. Shrestha, Michael Wood, F. Sabatié, M. Holtrop, Chaden Djalali, L. El Fassi, V. Mascagna, G. Gavalian, K. Hafidi, A. Filippi, B. A. Raue, Luciano Pappalardo, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, I. Bedlinskiy, Michael Dugger, W. Phelps, G. Angelini, P. Rossi, K. Wei, S. Joosten, S. Fegan, M. Leali, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, P. Nadel-Turonski, M. Khachatryan, N. A. Baltzell, K. Livingston, Alessandro Rizzo, Axel Schmidt, T. R. O'Connell, William Brooks, I. I. Strakovsky, F. Hauenstein, A. Kim, L. Venturelli, Jie Zhang, Y. Gotra, Z. E. Meziani, A. Deur, B. Yale, E.P. Segarra, S. Nanda, A. Kripko, T. A. Forest, S. Stepanyan, Y. G. Sharabian, M. Ripani, R. Dupré, M. Bondì, M. Battaglieri, O. Pogorelko, J. Rowley, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, A. Hobart, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, M. Mirazita, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, M. Arratia, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, M. Ungaro, K. Joo, A. Thornton, and W. Kim
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Quark ,Physics ,Spectrometer ,Proton ,Nuclear Theory ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Deep inelastic scattering ,01 natural sciences ,Gluon ,Nuclear physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Cathode ray ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Beam (structure) ,Spin-½ - Abstract
The observation of beam spin asymmetries in two-pion production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off an unpolarized proton target is reported for the first time. The data presented here were taken in the fall of 2018 with the CLAS12 spectrometer using a 10.6 GeV longitudinally spin-polarized electron beam delivered by CEBAF at JLab. The measured asymmetries provide the first observation of a signal that can be used to extract the PDF $e(x)$ in a collinear framework and the helicity-dependent two-pion fragmentation function $G_1^\perp$.
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- 2021