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Title COMPASS results on the transverse spin asymmetry in hadron-pair production in SIDIS
Author(s) Braun, Christopher (Erlangen - Nuremberg U.)
Collaboration COMPASS Collaboration
Publication 2015
Number of pages 4
In: EPJ Web Conf. 85 (2015) 02018
In: 4th International Workshop on Transverse Polarization Phenomena in Hard Processes, Cagliari, Italy, 09 - 13 Jun 2014, pp.02018
DOI 10.1051/epjconf/20158502018
Subject category Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN SPS ; COMPASS NA58
Abstract The parton distribution function h q 1 ( x ) of a transversely polarized quark q inside a transversely po- larized nucleon, is chiral-odd and therefore not accessible in inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. It can however be observed in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) in combination with another chiral-odd func- tion, for instance the dihadron interference fragmentation function (DiFF) H / q 1 . The 160 GeV = c polarized muon beam of CERN’s M2 beamline allows COMPASS to investigate transverse spin e ects using polarized solid- state targets. In this contribution an overview of COMPASS results for the azimuthal asymmetry in identified dihadron production is given. Pions and kaons were identified by a RICH detector. Recently, the full set of this asymmetry from the COMPASS data on the deuteron and the proton target became available. All data, includ- ing early data sets, were analyzed using the same methods and requirements. The results are compared to model predictions and HERMES data. Also a point-by-point extraction of the Transversity distribution functions h 1 ( x ) for u and d quarks was carried out with this full data set. Further investigations on the correlation between the dihadron asymmetry and the Collins asymmetries of the two hadrons of the pair have revealed an interesting dependence of these three asymmetries on the di erence of the azimuthal angles of the two hadron
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