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A study of charge symmetry violation in fragmentation functions extracted from semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions from protons and deuterons

We have measured the flavor dependence of multiplicities for $\\pi^+$ and $\\pi^-$ production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) on proton and deuteron targets. We used a 10.6 GeV electron beam at Jefferson Lab, and 4 msr solid angle spectrometers (HMS for electrons, SHMS for pions), the lepton vertex spanned the kinematic range $0.3 < x < 0.6$, $2 < Q^2 < 5$ GeV$^2$, and $4 < W^2 < 11$ GeV$^2$. The pion fractional momentum range was $0.3 < z < 0.7$ and the small transverse momentum range was $0 < P_t < .25$ GeV. We used the multiplicities to form sum-and-difference ratios, testing the validity of factorization. We extracted two favored and two unfavored $W$ dependent fragmentation functions (FFs) from these multiplicities. Assuming factorization at low $P_t$, we find that the two ``favored" FFs allow for isospin breaking (charge symmetry violation) at low $W$, while converging to a common value at the highest $W$ of this experiment. The two unfavored FFs are consistent with each other within the experimental uncertainties.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-7090
Date10 May 2024
CreatorsBhatt, Hem Datt
PublisherScholars Junction
Source SetsMississippi State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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