Measurement of the spin asymmetry in the photoproduction of pairs of high-pT hadrons at HERMES

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Airapetian, A [1 ]
Akopov, N
Amarian, M
Aschenauer, EC
Avakian, H
Avakian, R
Avetissian, A
Bains, B
Baumgarten, C
Beckmann, M
Belostotski, S
Belz, JE
Benisch, T
Bernreuther, S
Bianchi, N
Blouw, J
Böttcher, H
Borissov, A
Brack, J
Brauksiepe, S
Braun, B
Brückner, W
Brüll, A
Bulten, HJ
Capitani, GP
Carter, P
Chumney, P
Cisbani, E
Court, GR
Dalpiaz, PF
De Sanctis, E
De Schepper, D
Devitsin, E
Huberts, PKAD
Di Nezza, P
Düren, M
Dvoredsky, A
Elbakian, G
Ely, J
Fantoni, A
Ferstl, M
Fiedler, K
Filippone, BW
Fischer, H
Fox, B
Franz, J
Frullani, S
Funk, MA
Gärber, Y
Garibaldi, F
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[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Phys, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[2] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Div Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] CALTECH, WK Kellogg Radiat Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[5] Univ Colorado, Nucl Phys Lab, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[6] DESY, Deutsch Elekt Synchrotron, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
[7] DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[8] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[9] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[10] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[11] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[12] Florida Int Univ, Dept Phys, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[13] Univ Freiburg, Fak Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[14] Univ Ghent, Dept Subat & Radiat Phys, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[15] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany
[16] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[17] Univ Kentucky, Dept Phys & Astron, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[18] Univ Liverpool, Dept Phys, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[19] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[20] Univ Marburg, Inst Phys, D-35037 Marburg, Germany
[21] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[22] Univ Michigan, Randall Lab Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[23] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
[24] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[25] New Mexico State Univ, Dept Phys, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[26] NIKHEF, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[27] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg 188350, Russia
[28] Univ Regensburg, Inst Theoret Phys, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
[29] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[30] Ist Super Sanita, Phys Lab, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[31] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[32] Tokyo Inst Technol, Tokyo 152, Japan
[33] Free Univ Amsterdam, Dept Phys & Astron, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[34] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2584
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetry Ali in photoproduction of pairs of hadrons with high transverse momentum pi. Data were accumulated by the HERMES experiment using a 27.5 GeV polarized positron beam and a polarized hydrogen target internal to the HERA storage ring. For h(+)h(-) pairs with p(T)(h1) > 1.5 GeV/c and p(T)(h2) > 1.0 GeV/c, the measured asymmetry is A(parallel to) = -0.28 +/- 0.12(stat) +/- 0.02(syst). This negative value is in contrast to the positive asymmetries typically measured in deep inelastic scattering: from protons, and is interpreted to arise from a positive gluon polarization.
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页码:2584 / 2588
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