
Article
Measurement of semi-inclusive pi(+) electroproduction off the proton
Physical Review D
(2009)
- M Osipenko
- M Ripani
- G Ricco
- H Avakian
- R De Vita
- G Adams
- MJ Amaryan
- P Ambrozewicz
- M Anghinolfi
- G Asryan
- H Bagdasaryan
- N Baillie
- JP Ball
- NA Baltzell
- S Barrow
- M Battaglieri
- I Bedlinskiy
- M Bektasoglu
- M Bellis
- N Benmouna
- BL Berman
- AS Biselli
- L Blaszczyk
- BE Bonner
- S Bouchigny
- S Boiarinov
- R Bradford
- D Branford
- WJ Briscoe
- WK Brooks
- S Bultmann
- VD Burkert
- C Butuceanu
- JR Calarco
- SL Careccia
- DS Carman
- A Cazes
- F Ceccopieri
- S Chen
- PL Cole
- P Collins
- P Coltharp
- P Corvisiero
- D Crabb
- V Crede
- JP Cummings
- N Dashyan
- R De Masi
- E De Sanctis
- PV Degtyarenko
- H Denizli
- L Dennis
- A Deur
- KV Dharmawardane
- KS Dhuga
- R Dickson
- C Djalali
- GE Dodge
- J Donnelly
- D Doughty
- V Drozdov
- M Dugger
- S Dytman
- OP Dzyubak
- H Egiyan
- KS Egiyan
- L El Fassi
- L Elouadrhiri
- P Eugenio
- R Fatemi
- G Fedotov
- G Feldman
- RJ Feuerbach
- H Funsten
- M Garcon
- G Gavalian
- GP Gilfoyle
- KL Giovanetti
- FX Girod
- JT Goetz
- E Golovach
- A Gonenc
- CIO Gordon
- RW Gothe
- KA Griffioen
- M Guidal
- M Guillo
- N Guler
- L Guo
- V Gyurjyan
- C Hadjidakis
- K Hafidi
- H Hakobyan
- RS Hakobyan
- C Hanretty
- J Hardie
- N Hassall
- D Heddle
- FW Hersman
- K Hicks
- I Hleiqawi
- M Holtrop
- CE Hyde-Wright
- Y Ilieva
- A Ilyichev
- DG Ireland
- BS Ishkhanov
- EL Isupov
- MM Ito
- D Jenkins
- HS Jo
- K Joo
- HG Juengst
- N Kalantarians
- JD Kellie
- M Khandaker
- W Kim
- A Klein
- FJ Klein
- AV Klimenko
- M Kossov
- Z Krahn
- LH Kramer
- V Kubarovsky
- J Kuhn
- SE Kuhn
- SV Kuleshov
- J Lachniet
- JM Laget
- J Langheinrich
- D Lawrence
- J Li
- K Livingston
- HY Lu
- M MacCormick
- N Markov
- P Mattione
- S McAleer
- M McCracken
- B McKinnon
- JWC McNabb
- BA Mecking
- S Mehrabyan
- JJ Melone
- MD Mestayer
- CA Meyer
- T Mibe
- K Mikhailov
- R Minehart
- M Mirazita
- R Miskimen
- V Mokeev
- K Moriya
- SA Morrow
- M Moteabbed
- J Mueller
- E Munevar
- GS Mutchler
- P Nadel-Turonski
- J Napolitano
- R Nasseripour
- S Niccolai
- G Niculescu
- I Niculescu
- BB Niczyporuk
- MR Niroula
- RA Niyazov
- M Nozar
- GV O'Rielly
- AI Ostrovidov
- K Park
- E Pasyuk
- C Paterson
- SA Pereira
- SA Philips
- J Pierce
- N Pivnyuk
- D Pocanic
- O Pogorelko
- E Polli
- I Popa
- S Pozdniakov
- BM Preedom
- JW Price
- Y Prok
- D Protopopescu
- LM Qin
- BA Raue
- G Riccardi
- BG Ritchie
- G Rosner
- P Rossi
- PD Rubin
- F Sabatie
- J Salamanca
- C Salgado
- JP Santoro
- V Sapunenko
- RA Schumacher
- VS Serov
- YG Sharabian
- NV Shvedunov
- AV Skabelin
- ES Smith
- LC Smith
- DI Sober
- D Sokhan
- A Stavinsky
- SS Stepanyan
- S Stepanyan
- BE Stokes
- P Stoler
- II Strakovsky
- S Strauch
- M Taiuti
- DJ Tedeschi
- U Thoma
- A Tkabladze
- S Tkachenko
- L Todor
- L Trentadue
- C Tur
- M Ungaro
- MF Vineyard
- AV Vlassov
- DP Watts
- LB Weinstein
- DP Weygand
- M Williams, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
- E Wolin
- MH Wood
- A Yegneswaran
- L Zana
- J Zhang
- B Zhao
- ZW Zhao
Abstract
Semi-inclusive π+ [pi superscript +] electroproduction on protons has been measured with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. The measurement was performed on a liquid-hydrogen target using a 5.75 GeV electron beam. The complete five-fold differential cross sections were measured over a wide kinematic range including the complete range of azimuthal angles between hadronic and leptonic planes, ϕ [phi], enabling us to separate the ϕ-dependent [phi-dependent] terms. Our measurements of the ϕ-independent [phi-independent] term of the cross section at low Bjorken x were found to be in fairly good agreement with pQCD calculations. Indeed, the conventional current fragmentation calculation can account for almost all of the observed cross section, even at small π+ [pi superscript +] momentum. The measured center-of-momentum spectra are in qualitative agreement with high-energy data, which suggests a surprising numerical similarity between the spectator diquark fragmentation in the present reaction and the antiquark fragmentation measured in e+e- [e superscript + e superscript -] collisions. We have observed that the two ϕ-dependent [phi-dependent] terms of the cross section are small. Within our precision the cos2ϕ [cos 2 phi] term is compatible with zero, except for the low-z region, and the measured cosϕ [cos phi]term is much smaller in magnitude than the sum of the Cahn and Berger effects.
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 1, 2009
Citation Information
M Osipenko, M Ripani, G Ricco, H Avakian, et al.. "Measurement of semi-inclusive pi(+) electroproduction off the proton" Physical Review D Vol. 80 Iss. 3 (2009) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_williams/107/