Measurement of “Pretzelosity” Asymmetry of Charged Pion Production in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering on a Polarized 3 He Target
2014
An experiment to measure single-spin asymmetries of semi-inclusive production of charged pions in deepinelastic
scattering on a transversely polarized 3He target was performed at Jefferson Laboratory in the kinematic
region of 0.16 asymmetries on 3He, which are expressed as
the convolution of the h⊥
1T transverse-momentum-dependent distribution functions and the Collins fragmentation
functions in the leading order, were measured for the first time. Under the effective polarization approximation,
we extracted the corresponding neutron asymmetries from the measured 3He asymmetries and cross-section ratios
between the proton and 3He. Our results show that both π± on 3He and on neutron pretzelosity asymmetries are
consistent with zero within experimental uncertainties.
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