Transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries of pion and kaon pairs produced in muon-proton and muon-deuteron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

Alexeev GD, Alexeev MG, Alice C, Amoroso A, Andrieux V, Anosov V, Augsten K, Augustyniak W, Azevedo CD, Badelek B, Barth J, Beck R, Bedfer Y, Bernhard J, Bodlak M, Bradamante F, Braun C, Bressan A, Burtsev VE, Chang WC, Chatterjee C, Chiosso M, Chumakov AG, Chung SU, Cicuttin A, Correia PM, Crespo ML, D'Ago D, Dalla Torre S, Dasgupta SS, Dasgupta S, Del Carro F, Denisenko I, Denisov OY, Donskov SV, Doshita N, Dreisbach C, Dünnweber W, Dusaev RR, Ecker D, Efremov A, Elia C, Eremeev D, Faccioli P, Faessler M, Finger M, Fischer H, Flöthner KJ, Florian W, Friedrich JM, Frolov V, Garcia Ordòñez LG, Gautheron F, Gavrichtchouk OP, Gerassimov S, Giarra J, Giordano D, Gorzellik M, Grasso A, Gridin A, Grosse Perdekamp M, Grube B, Grüner M, Guskov A, von Harrach D, Hoffmann M, Horikawa N, d'Hose N, Hsieh CY, Huber S, Ishimoto S, Ivanov A, Iwata T, Jandek M, Jary V, Joosten R, Kabuß E, Kaspar F, Kerbizi A, Ketzer B, Khatun A, Khaustov GV, Klein F, Koivuniemi JH, Kolosov VN, Kondo Horikawa K, Konorov I, Konstantinov VF, Korzenev AM, Kotzinian AM, Kouznetsov OM, Koval A, Kral Z, Krinner F, Kunne F, Kurek K, Kurjata RP, Kveton A, Lavickova K, Levorato S, Lian YS, Lichtenstadt J, Lin PJ, Longo R, Lyubovitskij VE, Maggiora A, Magnon A, Makins N, Makke N, Mallot GK, Maltsev A, Mamon SA, Martin A, Marzec J, Matoušek J, Matsuda T, Mattson G, Menezes Pires C, Metzger F, Meyer M, Meyer W, Mikhailov YV, Mikhasenko M, Mitrofanov E, Miura D, Miyachi Y, Molina R, Moretti A, Nagaytsev A, Neyret D, Niemiec M, Nový J, Nowak WD, Nukazuka G, Olshevsky AG, Ostrick M, Panzieri D, Parsamyan B, Paul S, Pekeler H, Peng JC, Pesaro G, Pešek M, Peshekhonov DV, Pešková M, Platchkov S, Pochodzalla J, Polyakov VA, Quaresma M, Quintans C, Reicherz G, Riedl C, Ryabchikov DI, Rychter A, Rymbekova A, Samoylenko VD, Sandacz A, Sarkar S, Savin IA, Sbrizzai G, Schiavon P, Schmieden H, Selyunin A, Sharko K, Sinha L, Slunecka M, Sozzi F, Spülbeck D, Srnka A, Stolarski M, Subrt O, Sulc M, Suzuki H, Tessaro S, Tessarotto F, Thiel A, Tomsa J, Tosello F, Townsend A, Triloki T, Tskhay V, Valinoti B, Veit BM, Veloso JF, Ventura B, Virius M, Wagner M, Wallner S, Zaremba K, Zavertyaev M, Zemko M, Zemlyanichkina E, Ziembicki M (2023)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Journal

Book Volume: 845

Article Number: 138155

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138155

Abstract

A set of measurements of azimuthal asymmetries in the production of pairs of identified hadrons in deep-inelastic scattering of muons on transversely polarised 6LiD (deuteron) and NH3 (proton) targets is presented. All available data collected in the years 2003–2004 and 2007/2010 with the COMPASS spectrometer using a muon beam of 160GeV/c at the CERN SPS were analysed. The asymmetries provide access to the transversity distribution functions via a fragmentation function that in principle may be independently obtained from e+e annihilation data. Results are presented, discussed and compared to existing measurements as well as to model predictions. Asymmetries of π+π pairs measured with the proton target as a function of the Bjorken scaling variable are sizeable in the range x>0.032, indicating non-vanishing transversity distribution and di-hadron interference fragmentation functions. As already pointed out by several authors, the small asymmetries of π+π measured on the 6LiD target can be interpreted as indication for a cancellation of u and d-quark transversity distributions.

Involved external institutions

National Centre for Nuclear Research (früher:Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM & Andrzej Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies) / Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych (NCBJ) Univerzita Karlova v Praze / Charles University in Prague Technische Universität München (TUM) Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'univers (IRFU) Warsaw University of Technology / Politechnika Warszawska Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica / 中央研究院物理研究所 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Matrivani Institute of Experimental Research and Education Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg University of Miyazaki / 宮崎大学 Yamagata University (YU) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) / Երևանի Ֆիզիկայի Ինստիտուտ Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung (CERN) Czech Technical University in Prague / České vysoké učení technické v Praze University of Aveiro / Universidade de Aveiro University of Warsaw / Uniwersytet Warszawski Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics / Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP) Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP Nagoya University / 名古屋大学 Tel Aviv University Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ISI CAS) / Ústav Přístrojové Techniky (ÚPT AV ČR) Technical University of Liberec (TUL)

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APA:

Alexeev, G.D., Alexeev, M.G., Alice, C., Amoroso, A., Andrieux, V., Anosov, V.,... Ziembicki, M. (2023). Transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries of pion and kaon pairs produced in muon-proton and muon-deuteron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. Physics Letters B, 845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138155

MLA:

Alexeev, G. D., et al. "Transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries of pion and kaon pairs produced in muon-proton and muon-deuteron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering." Physics Letters B 845 (2023).

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