Session CA: Exploring the Spin Structure of the Nucleon

9:00 AM–11:24 AM, Friday, October 27, 2006
Gaylord Opryland - Tennessee C

Sponsoring Unit: DNP
Chair: Kees de Jager, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Abstract: CA.00003 : New Results on single spin asymmetries measured in DIS and polarised pp-scattering

10:12 AM–10:48 AM

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Author:

  Elke-C. Aschenauer
    (DESY)

Azimuthal single spin asymmetries (SSA) in semi inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and polarized pp-scattering provide a tool to access transversity, the distribution of transversely polarized quarks in a transversely polarized nucleon. In addition the Sivers mechanism, the relation between intrinsic transverse quark momentum and the transverse momentum of the final hadron, can give rise to a nonzero SSA. For both the Collins and Sivers mechanism azimuthal moments for different hadronic final states are extracted from the COMPASS, HERMES and JLAB data taken with a transversely polarized targets. The latest results will also be presented from measurements of SSA in polarised pp-scattering from the RHIC experiments BRAHMS, PHENIX and STAR.