Measurements in the late 1980s at CERN revealed that quark spins account for a small fraction of the proton's spin. This so-called spin crisis spurred a number of new experiments to identify the proton's silent spin contributors, namely, the spin of the gluons, which hold the quarks together, and the orbital angular momentum of both quarks and gluons. One such experiment was eg1-dvcs at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., which ran in 2009 and collected approximately 19 billion electron triggers for hydrogen. I will present new measurements of the single and double-spin asymmetries ALU, AUL and ALL for pi+, pi - and pi0, measured as a function of Bjorken xB, squared momentum transfer Q2, hadron energy fraction z, and hadron transverse momentum Ph ⊥. These asymmetries, which are convolutions of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distributions and fragmentation functions, correlate with the transverse momentum, and therefore with the orbital motion, of the struck quark.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:wm.edu/oai:scholarworks.wm.edu:etd-3384 |
Date | 01 January 2012 |
Creators | Jawalkar, Sucheta Shrikant |
Publisher | W&M ScholarWorks |
Source Sets | William and Mary |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects |
Rights | © The Author |
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