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Title: Target and beam-target spin asymmetries in exclusive π + and π electroproduction with 1.6- to 5.7-GeV electrons

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
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Here, beam-target double-spin asymmetries and target single-spin asymmetries in exclusive π+ and quasiexclusive π electroproduction were obtained from scattering of 1.6- to 5.7-GeV longitudinally polarized electrons from longitudinally polarized protons (for π+) and deuterons (for π) using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. The kinematic range covered is 1.1 < W < 2.6 GeV and 0.05 < Q2 < 5GeV2, with good angular coverage in the forward hemisphere. The asymmetry results were divided into approximately 40 000 kinematic bins for π+ from free protons and 15 000 bins for π production from bound nucleons in the deuteron. The present results are found to be in reasonable agreement with fits to previous world data for W < 1.7 GeV and Q2 < 0.5GeV2, with discrepancies increasing at higher values of Q2, especially for W > 1.5 GeV. Very large target-spin asymmetries are observed for W > 1.6 GeV. When combined with cross-section measurements, the present results can provide powerful constraints on nucleon resonance amplitudes at moderate and large values of Q2, for resonances with masses as high as 2.3 GeV.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States); Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA); United Kingdom’s Science and Technology Facilities Council; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Italian Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; French Commissariat `a l’Energie Atomique; German Research Foundation (DFG)
Contributing Organization:
CLAS Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177; SC0016583; FG02-07ER41528
OSTI ID:
1330792
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1330606; OSTI ID: 1439591
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-16-2294; DOE/OR/23177-3875; arXiv:1604.04350; PRVCAN; TRN: US1700169
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 94, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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