Single Spin Asymmetries in Electroproduction at Clas
Abstract
We present measurements of spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive processes in hard scattering kinematics using a 5.7 GeV electron beam and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at JLab. Scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons off an unpolarized liquid-hydrogen and off a polarized NH3 targets was studied over a wide range of kinematics. Non-zero single-beam and single-target spin asymmetries have been observed in semi-inclusive pion production in hard-scattering kinematics (Q2 > 1.2 GeV2,W2 > 4 GeV2). Systematic studies of factorization of x and z dependences have been done for different spin-dependent and spin-independent observables. No significant x/z dependence has been observed within statistical uncertainties, which is consistent with factorization of hard scattering and fragmentation processes.
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GDH 2004
- Pub Date:
- February 2005
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- Bibcode:
- 2005gdh..conf..228A