Published August 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of the cos(φh) and cos(2φh) Azimuthal Moments of the Deep Inelastic Scattering Cross-section

  • 1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
  • 2. INFN and Universita degli studi di Ferrara (Italy)

Description

The cross section for hadron production in deep-inelastic lepton scattering contains azimuthal modulations which can be related to transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution and fragmentation functions. The former provide a picture of how the quarks are moving within nucleons. Specifically, the cosφh and cos2φh modulations of the unpolarized cross section relate quark spin and quark transverse momentum. These moments have been carefully measured at the HERMES experiment in a fully differential way, as a function of x, y, z, and Phperpendicular for positive and negative hadrons produced from hydrogen and deuterium targets. These measurements give new access to the flavor dependent TMDs via their charge and target dependence.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.05.043

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.05.043;
PII
S0375-9474(09)00305-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
827
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 225c-227c
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
18. particles and nuclei international conference
Acronym
PANIC08
Dates
9-14 Nov 2008
Place
Eilat (Israel)

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