Abstract
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 < 5 GeV2, 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 < 0.5 GeV2, 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.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2016
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.055201
Funding Information
This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), the United Kingdom's Science and Technology Facilities Council, the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Italian Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, and the Emmy Noether grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
Related Content
See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.055201 for plain text tables of asymmetry results for the reaction ep → eπ+n and plain text tables of asymmetry results for the reaction ed → eπ−p(p) .
Repository Citation
Bosted, P. E.; Biselli, A. S.; Careccia, S.; Dodge, G.; Fersch, R.; Guler, N.; Kuhn, S. E.; Pierce, J.; Prok, Y.; Zheng, X.; Adhikari, K. P.; Adikaram, D.; Akbar, Z.; Amaryan, M. J.; Anefalos Pereira, S.; Asryan, G.; Avakian, H.; Badui, R. A.; Ball, J.; Baltzell, N. A.; Battaglieri, M.; Batourine, V.; Bedlinskiy, I.; Boiarinov, S.; Briscoe, W. J.; Bültmann, S.; Burkert, V. D.; Cao, T.; Carman, D. S.; Celentano, A.; and Gohn, Wesley P., "Target and Beam-Target Spin Asymmetries in Exclusive π+ and π− Electroproduction with 1.6- to 5.7-GeV Electrons" (2016). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 426.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/426
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Physical Review C, v. 94, issue 5, 055201, p. 1-25.
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The authors of this article are collectively known as CLAS Collaboration.