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The $\sin2\phi_h$ azimuthal asymmetry of pion production in SIDIS within TMD factorization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-08-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the sin2ϕh\sin2\phi_h azimuthal asymmetry of charged and neutral pion productions off the longitudinally polarized nucleon targets in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering (SIDIS) process within the transverse momentum dependent~(TMD) factorization. The asymmetry is contributed by the convolution of the TMD distribution h1Lh_{1L}^{\perp} and the Collins fragmentation function H1H_{1}^\perp. We adopt the Wandzura-Wilczek-type~(WW-type) approximation for h1Lh_{1L}^{\perp} and two different parametrizations on the nonperturbative part of TMD evolution for h1Lh_{1L}^{\perp} and H1H_{1}^\perp. We numerically estimate the asymmetry in the kinematical configurations available at HERMES, CLAS and CLAS12. It is shown that our theoretical calculation can describe the HERMES and CLAS data, except the asymmetry of the π\pi^- production off proton target at HERMES and CLAS. We also find that different choices of the nonperturbative part of TMD evolution lead qualitatively similar results.

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@article{arxiv.2111.03840,
  title  = {The $\sin2\phi_h$ azimuthal asymmetry of pion production in SIDIS within TMD factorization},
  author = {Hui Li and Zhun Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03840},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2104.12155