Single Spin Asymmetries in Charged Pion Production from Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 107; no. 7
• Main Authors: Qian, X., Allada, K., Dutta, C., Huang, J., Katich, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W. M., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, Hui, Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F., Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., Lerose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., Mcnulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Muñoz Camacho, C., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R. D., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Širca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, A., Urciuoli, G. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Physical Society 01-08-2011
• Subjects: CROSS SECTIONS; DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTRON BEAMS; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; NEUTRONS; Nuclear Experiment; Nuclear Theory; NUCLEONS; Physics; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; PIONS; POLARIZATION; POLARIZED TARGETS; PRODUCTION; PROTONS; QUARK MODEL; SPIN; TARGETS
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.072003

We report the first measurement of target single spin asymmetries in the semi-inclusive $^3{He}(e,e'\pi^\pm)X$ reaction on a transversely polarized target. The experiment, conducted at Jefferson Lab using a 5.9 GeV electron beam, covers a range of 0.14 $< x <$ 0.34 with 1.3 $