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Investigation of single spin asymmetries in pi^{+} electroproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The azimuthal single target-spin asymmetries for pi^{+} production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of leptons off longitudinally polarized protons are evaluated using two main approaches available in the literature. It is shown that the approximation where the twist-2 transverse quark spin distribution in the longitudinally polarized nucleon is small enough to be neglected leads to a consistent description of all existing asymmetries observed by the HERMES experiment.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0010261,
  title  = {Investigation of single spin asymmetries in pi^{+} electroproduction},
  author = {K. A. Oganessyan and N. Bianchi and E. De Sanctis and W. -D. Nowak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0010261},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages with 4 figures, LaTeX