High-Statistics Measurement of Collins and Sivers Asymmetries for Transversely Polarized Deuterons

(COMPASS Collaboration)

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Abstract

New results are presented on a high-statistics measurement of Collins and Sivers asymmetries of charged hadrons produced in deep inelastic scattering of muons on a transversely polarized LiD6 target. The data were taken in 2022 with the COMPASS spectrometer using the 160 GeV muon beam at CERN, statistically balancing the existing data on transversely polarized proton targets. The first results from about two-thirds of the new data have total uncertainties smaller by up to a factor of three compared to the previous deuteron measurements. Using all the COMPASS proton and deuteron results, both the transversity and the Sivers distribution functions of the u and d quark, as well as the tensor charge in the measured x range are extracted. In particular, the accuracy of the d quark results is significantly improved.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number101903
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume133
Issue number10
Early online dateSep 5 2024
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 6 2024

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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