Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.90.055201

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

90

Issue

5

Pages

055201 (6 pages)

Abstract

We report the first measurement of target single spin asymmetries of charged kaons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of electrons off a transversely polarized 3He target. Both the Collins and Sivers moments, which are related to the nucleon transversity and Sivers distributions, respectively, are extracted over the kinematic range of0.1 < xbj < 0.4for K+ and K− production. While the Collins and Sivers moments for K+ are consistent with zero within the experimental uncertainties, both moments for K− favor negative values. The Sivers moments are compared to the theoretical prediction from a phenomenological fit to the world data. While the K+ Sivers moments are consistent with the prediction, the K− results differ from the prediction at the 2-sigma level.

Comments

Article is open access under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Original Publication Citation

Zhao, Y. X., Wang, Y., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., . . . Jefferson Lab Hall, A. C. (2014). Single spin asymmetries in charged kaon production from semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized 3He target. Physical Review C, 90(5), 055201. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.90.055201

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