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Measurement of semi-inclusive π+ electroproduction off the proton
Physical Review D
  • M. Osipenko
  • Angela Biselli, Fairfield University
  • CLAS Collaboration, CLAS Collaboration
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Publication Date
1-1-2009
Abstract

Semi-inclusive π+ 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, enabling us to separate the ϕ-dependent terms. Our measurements of the ϕ-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+ 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− collisions. We have observed that the two ϕ-dependent terms of the cross section are small. Within our precision the cos2ϕ term is compatible with zero, except for the low-z region, and the measured cosϕ term is much smaller in magnitude than the sum of the Cahn and Berger effects.

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Copyright American Physical Society Publisher final version available at http://prd.aps.org/pdf/PRD/v80/i3/e032004
Published Citation
M. Osipenko et al. [CLAS Collaboration],"Measurement of semi-inclusive π+ electroproduction off the proton", Physical Review D 80.3 (2009) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.032004
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.032004
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Citation Information
M. Osipenko, Angela Biselli and CLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of semi-inclusive π+ electroproduction off the proton" Physical Review D Vol. 80 Iss. 3 (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/angela_biselli/51/