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Azimuthal asymmetries of charged hadrons produced in high-energy muon scattering off longitudinally polarised deuterons

Author
Adolph C. Institute of Physics, University of Erlangen Nuremberg
Finger Miroslav, prof. Ing. DrSc. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague
Finger Michael, M.Sc. CSc. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, JINR Dubna
Slunečka Miloš, Ing. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, JINR Dubna
Smolík Jan, Mgr. Ph.D. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering CTU
Taševský  Marek, Mgr. Ph.D. Institute of Physics ASCR
et al.  COMPASS collaboration

Year
2018

Scientific journal
European Physical Journal C, 78 (11), 952

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Abstract
Single hadron azimuthal asymmetries of positive and negative hadrons produced in muon semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off longitudinally polarised deuterons are determined using the 2006 COMPASS data and also combined all deuteron COMPASS data. For each hadron charge, the dependence of the azimuthal asymmetry on the hadron azimuthal angle f is obtained by means of a fiveparameter fitting function that besides a f-independent term includes four modulations predicted by theory: sin f, sin 2f, sin 3f and cos f. The amplitudes of the five terms have been extracted, first, for the hadrons in the whole available kinematic region. In further fits, performed for hadrons from a restricted kinematic region, the f-dependence is determined as a function of one of three variables (Bjorken-x, fractional energy of virtual photon taken by the outgoing hadron and hadron transverse momentum), while disregarding the others. Except thef-independent term, all themodulation amplitudes are very small, and no clear kinematic dependence could be observed within experimental uncertainties.

Cite article as:
C. Adolph, M. Finger, M. Finger, M. Slunečka, J. Smolík, M. Taševský , . et al., "Azimuthal asymmetries of charged hadrons produced in high-energy muon scattering off longitudinally polarised deuterons", European Physical Journal C, 78 (11), 952 (2018)