Transverse momentum dependence of semi-inclusive pion production

  • H. Mkrtchyan
  • , P. E. Bosted
  • , G. S. Adams
  • , A. Ahmidouch
  • , T. Angelescu
  • , J. Arrington
  • , R. Asaturyan
  • , O. K. Baker
  • , N. Benmouna
  • , C. Bertoncini
  • , H. P. Blok
  • , W. U. Boeglin
  • , H. Breuer
  • , M. E. Christy
  • , S. H. Connell
  • , Y. Cui
  • , M. M. Dalton
  • , S. Danagoulian
  • , D. Day
  • , T. Dodario
  • J. A. Dunne, D. Dutta, N. El Khayari, R. Ent, H. C. Fenker, V. V. Frolov, L. Gan, D. Gaskell, K. Hafidi, W. Hinton, R. J. Holt, T. Horn, G. M. Huber, E. Hungerford, X. Jiang, M. Jones, K. Joo, N. Kalantarians, J. J. Kelly, C. E. Keppel, V. Kubarovsky, Y. Li, Y. Liang, S. Malace, P. Markowitz, E. McGrath, P. McKee, D. G. Meekins, B. Moziak, T. Navasardyan, G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu, A. K. Opper, T. Ostapenko, P. E. Reimer, J. Reinhold, J. Roche, S. E. Rock, E. Schulte, E. Segbefia, C. Smith, G. R. Smith, P. Stoler, V. Tadevosyan, L. Tang, M. Ungaro, A. Uzzle, S. Vidakovic, A. Villano, W. F. Vulcan, M. Wang, G. Warren, F. Wesselmann, B. Wojtsekhowski, S. A. Wood, C. Xu, L. Yuan, X. Zheng, H. Zhu

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Abstract

Cross sections for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions (π±) from both proton and deuteron targets were measured for 0.2 < x < 0.5, 2 < Q2 < 4 GeV2, 0.3 < z < 1, and Pt 2 < 0.2 GeV2. For Pt < 0.1 GeV, we find the azimuthal dependence to be small, as expected theoretically. For both π+ and π-, the Pt dependence from the deuteron is found to be slightly weaker than from the proton. In the context of a simple model, this implies that the initial transverse momenta width of d quarks is larger than for u quarks and, contrary to expectations, the transverse momentum width of the favored fragmentation function is larger than the unfavored one.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20-25
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume665
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2008
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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