Predictions for Sivers single spin asymmetries in one- and two-hadron electroproduction at CLAS12 and EIC
Abstract
The study of the Sivers effect, describing correlations between the transverse polarization of the nucleon and its constituent (unpolarized) parton’s transverse momentum, has been the topic of a great deal of experimental, phenomenological and theoretical effort in recent years. Semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering measurements of the corresponding single spin asymmetries (SSA) at the upcoming CLAS12 experiment at JLab and the proposed Electron-Ion Collider will help to pinpoint the flavor structure and the momentum dependence of the Sivers parton distribution function describing this effect. Here we describe a modified version of the pythia6 Monte Carlo event generator that includes the Sivers effect. Then we use it to estimate the size of these SSAs, in the kinematics of these experiments, for both one and two hadron final states of pions and kaons. For this purpose we utilize the existing Sivers parton distribution function (PDF) parametrization extracted from HERMES and COMPASS experiments. As a result, using this modified version of pythia6, we also show that the leading order approximation commonly used in such extractions may provide significantly underestimated values of Sivers PDFs, as in our Monte Carlo simulations the omitted parton showers and non-DIS processes play an important role in these SSAs, formore »
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- Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide (Australia)
- Yerevan Physics Inst. (YerPhI), Yerevan (Armenia); Sezione di Torino, Torino (Italy)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1221544
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1227323; OSTI ID: 1234363
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-15-2026; DOE/OR/23177-3330; arXiv:1502.02669; BNL-108601-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998; PRVDAQ
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FL0992247 (AWT); CE110001004 (CoEPP); SC0012704; AC05-06OR23177; SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Citation Formats
Matevosyan, Hrayr H., Kotzinian, Aram, Aschenauer, Elke -Caroline, Avakian, Harut A., and Thomas, Anthony W. Predictions for Sivers single spin asymmetries in one- and two-hadron electroproduction at CLAS12 and EIC. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.054028.
Matevosyan, Hrayr H., Kotzinian, Aram, Aschenauer, Elke -Caroline, Avakian, Harut A., & Thomas, Anthony W. Predictions for Sivers single spin asymmetries in one- and two-hadron electroproduction at CLAS12 and EIC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.054028
Matevosyan, Hrayr H., Kotzinian, Aram, Aschenauer, Elke -Caroline, Avakian, Harut A., and Thomas, Anthony W. Wed .
"Predictions for Sivers single spin asymmetries in one- and two-hadron electroproduction at CLAS12 and EIC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.054028. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1221544.
@article{osti_1221544,
title = {Predictions for Sivers single spin asymmetries in one- and two-hadron electroproduction at CLAS12 and EIC},
author = {Matevosyan, Hrayr H. and Kotzinian, Aram and Aschenauer, Elke -Caroline and Avakian, Harut A. and Thomas, Anthony W.},
abstractNote = {The study of the Sivers effect, describing correlations between the transverse polarization of the nucleon and its constituent (unpolarized) parton’s transverse momentum, has been the topic of a great deal of experimental, phenomenological and theoretical effort in recent years. Semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering measurements of the corresponding single spin asymmetries (SSA) at the upcoming CLAS12 experiment at JLab and the proposed Electron-Ion Collider will help to pinpoint the flavor structure and the momentum dependence of the Sivers parton distribution function describing this effect. Here we describe a modified version of the pythia6 Monte Carlo event generator that includes the Sivers effect. Then we use it to estimate the size of these SSAs, in the kinematics of these experiments, for both one and two hadron final states of pions and kaons. For this purpose we utilize the existing Sivers parton distribution function (PDF) parametrization extracted from HERMES and COMPASS experiments. As a result, using this modified version of pythia6, we also show that the leading order approximation commonly used in such extractions may provide significantly underestimated values of Sivers PDFs, as in our Monte Carlo simulations the omitted parton showers and non-DIS processes play an important role in these SSAs, for example in the COMPASS kinematics.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.92.054028},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
number = 5,
volume = 92,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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