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Two-hadron single target-spin asymmetries: first measurement by HERMES

P. B. van der Nat, K. Griffioen

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0501009

Abstract

Single target-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive two-pion production were measured for the first time by the HERMES experiment, using a longitudinally polarized deuterium target. These asymmetries relate to the unknown transversity distribution function h1(x) through, also unknown, interference fragmentation functions. The presented results are compared with a model for the dependence of one of these interference fragmentation functions on the invariant mass of the pion pair.

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