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Measurement of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries on transversely polarised protons

M.G. Alekseev, +230 more
- 06 Sep 2010 - 
- Vol. 692, Iss: 4, pp 240-246
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The Collins and Sivers asymmetries for charged hadrons produced in deeply inelastic scattering on transversely polarised protons have been extracted from the data collected in 2007 with the CERN SPS muon beam tuned at 160 GeV/c as discussed by the authors.
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This article is published in Physics Letters B.The article was published on 2010-09-06 and is currently open access. It has received 152 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quark.

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The Spin Structure of the Nucleon

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the present understanding of QCD spin physics: the proton spin puzzle and new developments aimed at understanding the transverse structure of the nucleon.
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Effects of transversity in deep-inelastic scattering by polarized protons

A. Airapetian, +146 more
- 20 Sep 2010 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, single-spin asymmetries for pions and charged kaons are measured in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of positrons and electrons off a transversely nuclear-polarized hydrogen target.
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Electron-ion collider in China

Daniele Paolo Anderle, +108 more
TL;DR: In this article, an Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) has been proposed, which will be constructed based on an upgraded heavy-ion accelerator, High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), together with a new electron ring.
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II – Experimental investigation of transverse spin asymmetries in μ -p SIDIS processes: Sivers asymmetries

C. Adolph, +223 more
- 31 Oct 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the transverse spin azimuthal asymmetry of charged hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering using a 160 GeV mu(+) beam and a transversely polarised NH3 target.
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Parton fragmentation functions

TL;DR: The field of fragmentation functions of light quarks and gluons is reviewed in this paper, where the dependence of the fragmentation functions on transverse momenta and on polarization degrees of freedom is examined.
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TL;DR: In this article, a measurement of the spin asymmetry and determination of the structure function g1 in deep inelastic muon-proton scattering was carried out for the first time.
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J. G. Ashman, +93 more
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TL;DR: This approach provides testable relationships between different asymmetries and represents the coherent spin-orbit forces in a polarized proton by defining an asymmetry in the transverse-momentum distribution of the fundamental constituents.
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Fragmentation of transversely polarized quarks probed in transverse momentum distributions

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the azimuthal dependence of the distribution of hadrons in a quark jet is a probe of the transverse spin of the quark initiating the jet.
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The complete tree-level result up to order 1/Q for polarized deep-inelastic leptoproduction

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of the tree-level calculation of deepinelastic leptoproduction, including polarization of target hadron and produced hadron, and discuss the dependence on transverse momenta of the quarks which leads to azimuthal asymmetries for the produced hadrons.
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