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The asymmetries from semi inclusive pion electroproduction using proton or deuteron targets can be written in terms of the difference of the yield when electron spin is parallel and antiparallel to the spin of the nucleon. There are totally four combinations of semi inclusive asymmetries: <math>A_{NH3}^{\pi^+}</math>, <math>A_{NH3}^{\pi^-}</math>, <math>A_{ND3}^{\pi^+}</math> and <math>A_{ND3}^{\pi^-}</math><br> | The asymmetries from semi inclusive pion electroproduction using proton or deuteron targets can be written in terms of the difference of the yield when electron spin is parallel and antiparallel to the spin of the nucleon. There are totally four combinations of semi inclusive asymmetries: <math>A_{NH3}^{\pi^+}</math>, <math>A_{NH3}^{\pi^-}</math>, <math>A_{ND3}^{\pi^+}</math> and <math>A_{ND3}^{\pi^-}</math><br> | ||
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where <math>N_{NH3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel13}</math>(<math>N_{NH3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel24}</math>) and <math>N_{ND3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel13}</math>(<math>N_{ND3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel24}</math>) represent the number of <math>\pi^{+}</math> and <math>\pi^{-}</math> hadron type detected in the final state with the scattered electron, when the spin of the initial electron beam was antiparallel(parallel) to the spin of the proton and neutron respectively. <br> | where <math>N_{NH3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel13}</math>(<math>N_{NH3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel24}</math>) and <math>N_{ND3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel13}</math>(<math>N_{ND3,\pi^+,\pi^-}^{hel24}</math>) represent the number of <math>\pi^{+}</math> and <math>\pi^{-}</math> hadron type detected in the final state with the scattered electron, when the spin of the initial electron beam was antiparallel(parallel) to the spin of the proton and neutron respectively. <br> | ||
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The semi inclusive asymmetries are listed in Table 4.3 (Fig. 2.18). The first group <math>A_{hel1-hel4}</math> represents asymmetry when the first original electron spin(1) is antiparallel to the target nucleon spin and its complement state(hel4) is parallel, whereas the second group <math>A_{hel2-hel3}</math> represents measured SIDIS asymmetry when the first helicity state is parallel(hel2) and its complement state is antiparallel to the spin of the nucleon. In order to decrease statistical errors due to small number of events, the two groups have been combined into one | The semi inclusive asymmetries are listed in Table 4.3 (Fig. 2.18). The first group <math>A_{hel1-hel4}</math> represents asymmetry when the first original electron spin(1) is antiparallel to the target nucleon spin and its complement state(hel4) is parallel, whereas the second group <math>A_{hel2-hel3}</math> represents measured SIDIS asymmetry when the first helicity state is parallel(hel2) and its complement state is antiparallel to the spin of the nucleon. In order to decrease statistical errors due to small number of events, the two groups have been combined into one | ||
<math>A_{hel13-hel42}</math> set. Instead of looking at original and compliment electron helicity states, they have been combined into the positive(hel24) and negative(he13) helicity states, which are parallel and antiparallel to the spin of the target nucleon respectively. <br> | <math>A_{hel13-hel42}</math> set. Instead of looking at original and compliment electron helicity states, they have been combined into the positive(hel24) and negative(he13) helicity states, which are parallel and antiparallel to the spin of the target nucleon respectively. <br> |
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Data Analysis
In this chapter, we discuss the techniques used to analyze the data collected during the EG1b experiment and calculate semi-inclusive cross sections for the following reactions:
The CLAS Data Selection
The data files from the EG1b experiment chosen for this analysis are listed in Table 1.1. During the experiment, 2.2 GeV, 4.2 GeV and 5.7 GeV longitudinally polarized electron beams were used to probe the polarized frozen ammonia NH3 and ND3 targets. This work will discuss the analysis of the 4.2 GeV energy electron beam data set on hydrogen and deuteron targets as this energy provided the most statistics. The collected data have been tested by applying restrictions discussed in section XXX below.
Run Set | Target Type | Torus Current(A) | Target Polarization | Half Wave Plane(HWP) |
28100 - 28102 | ND3 | +2250 | -0.18 | +1 |
28106 - 28115 | ND3 | +2250 | -0.18 | -1 |
28145 - 28158 | ND3 | +2250 | -0.20 | +1 |
28166 - 28190 | ND3 | +2250 | +0.30 | +1 |
28205 - 28217 | NH3 | +2250 | +0.75 | +1 |
28222 - 28236 | NH3 | +2250 | -0.68 | +1 |
28242 - 28256 | NH3 | +2250 | -0.70 | -1 |
28260 - 28275 | NH3 | +2250 | +0.69 | -1 |
28287 - 28302 | ND3 | -2250 | +0.28 | +1 |
28306 - 28322 | ND3 | -2250 | -0.12 | +1 |
28375 - 28399 | ND3 | -2250 | +0.25 | -1 |
28407 - 28417 | NH3 | -2250 | +0.73 | -1 |
28456 - 28479 | NH3 | -2250 | -0.69 | +1 |
Table 1.1. EG1b Runs analyzed for this thesis (Run Sets, Target Type, Torus Current, Target Polarization, HWP). |
Particle Identification
Additional tests were performed on the electron and a pion candidates reconstructed using the standard CLAS software package on the raw data collected during the EG1b experiment. Electrons are identified by matching the charged particle hits in the Cherenkov counter, electromagnetic calorimeter and Time of Flight system, which can be achieved with geometrical and timing cuts on the electron sample. In addition, the cuts has been applied onto the energy deposited into the calorimeter and number of photoelectrons produced in the Cherenkov counter. Whereas, charged pions are identified by matching the hits in the drift chamber and TOF counter. a coincidence hit in the drift chamber and TOF counter
Electron Identification
The CLAS trigger system is a coincidence of the negatively charged particle track detected in the electromagnetic calorimeter and cherenkov counter in Fig. 2.1. Unfortunately, a background of high energy negative pions may be misidentified as electrons. These pions are mis-identified as electrons due to quasi-real photoproduction, when the polar angle of the scattered lepton is approximately zero and is not accounted by the CLAS detector. The pion contamination of the electron sample is reduced using cuts on the energy deposited in the electromagnetic calorimeter and the momentum measured in the track reconstruction for the known magnetic field. The energy deposition mechanism for the pions and electrons in the electromagnetic calorimeter is different. The total energy deposited by the electrons in the EC is proportional to their kinetic energy, whereas pions are minimum ionizing particles and the energy deposition is independent of their momentum. The pion background is further supressed using, geometrical and time matching between the cherenkov counter hit and the measured track in the drift chamber.
EC CUTS
The CLAS electromagnetic calorimeter was used to reduce the misidentification of electron and negative pion candidates. The electromagnetic calorimeter contains
Electrons interact with the calorimeter producing electromagnetic showers that release energy into the calorimeter. The deposited energy is proportional to the momentum of the electrons. Fig. 2.2 shows the correlation of the inner and outer calorimeter electron candidate's energy measured by the calorimeter and divided by the electron's momentum reconstructed by the drift chamber. As shown in the figure, there is an island near , which contains most of the electron candidates as well as some regions below which will be argued are negative pions misidentified as electrons.
Pions entering the calorimeter are typically minimum ionizing particles, loosing little of their incident energy in the calorimeter at a rate of . Electrons, on the other hand, deposit a larger fraction of their momentum into the calorimeter. As a result, the energy deposited into the electromagnetic calorimeter is different for electrons and pions. Pions loose about energy traversing the calorimeter independent their momentum thereby producing the constant signal in the calorimeter around . In order to reduce misidentified pions from the electron sample, the following cut has been applied:
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Since the energy loss of pions is related to the detector thickness the correlation can be established between the energy deposition into the inner and outer layers of the detector:
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which gives the following cut for the energy deposition into the outer layer of the calorimeter:
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Figure 2.2 vs before and after EC cuts ( , for EC inner - ). After applying EC cuts about 46 % of the events have been removed from the electron sample. |
Cherenkov Counter Cut
The Cherenkov counter has been used to further reduce the negatively charged pion background in the reconstructed electron sample. When the velocity of a charged particle is greater than the local phase velocity of light or when it enters a medium with different optical properties the charged particle will emit photons. Cherenkov light is emitted at the critical angle
where
The number of photons produced per unit path length of a particle with charge and per unit energy interval of the photons is proportional to the sine of the Cherenkov angle<ref name="Nakamure"> Nakamure, K., et al.. (2010). The Review of Particle Physics. Particle Data Group. J. Phys. G 37, 075021.</ref>
After deriving the Taylor expansion of our function and considering only the first two terms, we get following
The gas used in the CLAS Cerenkov counter is perfluorobutane
with index of refraction equal to . The number of photoelectrons emitted by electrons is about . On the other hand, calculations show that the number of photons produced by the negatively charged pions in the Cherenkov detector is approximately . The theoretical results of the number of photons produced by the electrons and pions when passing through the Cherenkov counter are shown on Fig. 2.3.
Figure 2.3 Theoretical Calculation of the Number of Photoelectrons for Electrons and Pions. |
The number of photoelectron distribution measured in the cherenkov detector and the energy deposition dependence on number of photoelectrons are shown on Fig. 2.4 and Fig. 2.5. One can see, that a single photoelectron peak is caused by the misidentified pions as electrons.
Figure 2.4 The number of photoelectrons without cuts. |
Figure 2.5 The total energy deposited into the Calorimeter vs The Number of Photoelectrons. |
Geometric and TIming cuts
These negative pions are produced when lepton goes at polar angle close to zero and is not measured by the detector. In order to reduce the electron sample contamination due to those pions, geometrical cuts on the location of the particle at the entrance to the cerenkov detector and time matching cuts has been developed by Osipenko. <ref name="Osipenko"> Osipenko, M., Vlassov, A.,& Taiuti, M. (2004). Matching between the electron candidate track and the Cherenkov counter hit. CLAS-NOTE 2004-020. </ref> For each CLAS Cherenkov detector segment the following cut has been applied
where
The pion contamination in electron sample was estimated by fitting the number of photoelectron distribution with two Gaussian distributions convoluted with a Landau distribution, which is presented below<ref name="Lanczos"> Lanczos, C. (1964). A precision approximation of the Gamma function. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, B1 86. </ref>:
It appears, that pion contamination in electron sample is
Figure 2.6 The number of photoelectrons before and after OSI Cuts. |
Pion Identification
Charged pions are identified by a coincidence hit in the drift chamber and TOF counter. Pions are separated from the other charged particles by looking at the particle momentum versus the
where
Using above information (particle momentum from the drift chambers and the timing information from the TOF system), the mass squared of the charged particle was calculated and is shown on Fig. 2.8. The pion mass band is around . To isolate charged pions from the rest of the particles a on vs momentum has been applied<ref name="Park2008" >Park, K., Burkert, V. D., & Kim, W. (The CLAS Collaboration). (2008). Cross sections and beam asymmetries for -> in the nucleon resonance region for . Phys. Rev., C77, 015208.</ref>.
Figure 2.7 The charged particle momentum vs | distribution. The pion and proton bands are clearly separated.
Figure 2.8 The charged particle momentum vs mass squared distribution for the | electroproduction process. The bands around and represent pions and protons respectively<ref name="Park2008" >Park, K., Burkert, V. D., & Kim, W. (The CLAS Collaboration). (2008). Cross sections and beam asymmetries for -> in the nucleon resonance region for . Phys. Rev., C77, 015208.</ref>.
In addition of the charged particle velocity(http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/secure/eg1/EG2000/josh/pion.cc </ref>
Specific Event Reconstruction Efficiency
The goal of this work is to measure the semi-inclusive asymmetry when an electron and a pion are detected in the final state. Pions of opposite charge will be observed using the same scintillator paddles by flipping the CLAS Torus magnetic field direction. Although, the pions will be detected by the same detector elements, the electrons will intersect different detector elements. As a result, the electron efficiency will need to be evaluated in terms of the electron rate observed in two different scintillator paddles detecting the same electron kinematics.
Inclusive Event Reconstruction Efficiency
The electron efficiency of individual scintillator detectors using the 4.2 GeV data for ND3 and NH3 targets is investigated below. Only the electron detection is required in the final state (inclusive case). The pion contamination in the electron sample was removed by applying cuts described above. The electron paddle numbers 10 (B<0) and 5 (B>0) were chosen respectively, because they contained the most electron events in a first pass semi-inclusive pion analysis of the data set. The electron kinematics (Momentum, scattering angle and invariant mass) for these scintillators is shown on Fig. 2.9.
Electron Momentum((NH3,B>0), (NH3,B<0), (ND3,B>0) && (ND3,B<0)) | Electron Scattering Angle | ((NH3,B>0), (NH3,B<0), (ND3,B>0) && (ND3,B<0))W Invariant mass((NH3,B>0), (NH3,B<0), (ND3,B>0) && (ND3,B<0)) |
Figure 2.9. Electron Kinematics. |
Ratios of the inclusive electron rate, normalized using the gated faraday cup, of scintillator paddles 5 and 10 were measured. The two ratios are constructed to quantify the CLAS detectors ability to observe the same electron kinematics in scintillator paddle #5 for a positive Torus polarity and scintillator #10 using the negatie Torus polarity.
Notice the above ratios are statistically the same. The semi-inclusive analysis to be performed in this thesis will be taking ratios using an ND3 and and NH3 target. Below is the observed ratio comparing the inclusive electrons observed in scintillator #5 for a positive torus polarity and ND3 target to the electrons observed in scintillator #10 when the torus polarity is negative and the target is NH3.
The above ratios, which have been observed to be ammonia target independent, indicate a difference in an electron detector efficiency when the Torus polarity is flipped. An electron detection efficiency "correction coefficient" is defined in terms of the above ratio and measured to be
Exclusive and Semi-Inclusive Event Reconstruction Efficiencies
After establishing the electron efficiency for the selected paddle numbers, the measured single pion electroproduction rate was compared to the MAID 2007 unitary model that has been developed using the world data of pion photo and electro-production to determine the impact of using the above "correction coefficient". The model is well adopted for predictions of the observables for pion production, like five fold cross section, total cross secton and etc.
The MAID 2007 model has predictions of the total cross section for the following two cases, that are related to our work:
+ proton + neutron |
+ neutron + proton |
The ratio of the pions detected in the scintillator paddles, located between the Cherenkov counter and electromagnetic calorimeter, is shown on Fig. 2.10. The ratios were taken for four different cases. Assuming that, for the inbending case positive pions and for the outbending case negative pions have the same trajectories with the same kinematics. In addition, negatively charged pions in the inbending field and positively charged pions in the outbending fields are detected by the same detector elements.
Figure 2.10. Pion paddle number vs Ratio for Semi-Inclusive case. |
Using MAID 2007, the total cross section was calculated for the following invariant mass and four momentum transferred square values: http://wwwkph.kph.uni-mainz.de/MAID//maid2007/maid2007.html</ref>.
where
Pion Paddle Number vs MAID2007 - Experiment( | ) . The Black and red data represent B>0/B<0 and B<0/B>0 cases respectively before corrections. The green and blue points represent the ratios for B>0/B<0 and B<0/B>0 after inclusive corrections.
Asymmetries
The double spin asymmetry measurements in this thesis are performed by comparing scattering events that occur when the incident probe spin and nuclear target spin are parallel to the scattering events that occur when the spins are anti-parallel.
Beam Charge Asymmetry
The helicity of the electron beam was flipped at a rate of 1 HZ. The helicity is prepared at the source such that helicity pairs are produced pseudo randomly. If the first electron bunch is pseudo randomly chosen to be positive (negative) then it is labeled as the original helicity state and denoted in software by a 2 (1). The next helicity state is prepared to be a complement to the first state and labeled in the software as either a 4, if the original helicity state was a 1 (negative), or 3 if the original helicity state was a 2 (positive). The helicity process is then repeated. Figure Fig. 2.12 illustrates the signals used to label helicity state. The clock pulse (SYNC) is used to indicate that a change in the pockel cell used to define the helicity state may have occurred. The helicity bit indicates the helicity state that was set. The original/complement pulse identifies if the state is an original or complement helicity state. All three bits are recorded in the raw data file for each event and then converted to the labels 1,2,3,4 during DST file production once the particles have been reconstructed.
Figure 2.12. The Helicity State: A one bit signal from the beam injector gives the helicity information, whereas a sync bit with a 2 HZ frequency is generated at the same time and is equal to the helicity flip time. |
Two scalers were used to record several ancillary detectors, such as a Faraday cup and several PMTs mounted on the beam line, according to their helicity label. One of the scalers was gated by the DAQ live time in order to record beam conditions when the DAQ was able to take data and not busy recording data. The second scaler remained ungated. Both scalers recorded the SYNC and Helicity signals from the injector along with the counts observed from ancillary detectors during the SYNC interval. The Faraday cup signal recorded by the gated helicity scaler is used to normalize the events reconstructed during the same helicity interval. The beam charge asymmetry measured by the gated helicity scaler is shown in Fig. 2.13 as a function of run number. For each run number the gaussian fit was used to extract the mean values of the asymmetry and corresponding error(Fig. 2.14).
Figure 2.14. Beam charge asymmetry for run #28101 using the gated faraday cup counts for two helicity pairs(1-4 and 2-3 helicity pairs). and . |
EG1b runs, with the same half wave plane, target type, target polarization and beam torus, have been combined. The beam charge asymmetries have been calculated for the each run group and are listed in Table 4.1.
Run Group | Half wave plane(HWP) | ||
28100 - 28105 | +1 | ||
28106 - 28115 | -1 | ||
28145 - 28240 | +1 | ||
28242 - 28284 | -1 | ||
28286 - 28324 | +1 | ||
28325 - 28447 | -1 | ||
28449 - 28479 | +1 |
Table 4.1. Run Group vs Beam Charge Asymmetry. |
Electron Asymmetry
A measurement of the electron cross section helicity difference needs to account for the possible helicity dependence of the incident electron flux ( Charge Asymmetry). Fig. 2.15 shows the reconstructed electron asymmetry before it is normalized by the gated Faraday Cup as a function of the run number for the 4.2 GeV data set. The reconstructed electron asymmetry can be defined following way:
or |
where
Figure 2.15. Run Number vs Electron Asymmetry before FC normalization. The black and red points represent reconstructed electron asymmetry for the helicity 1-4 pair for ND3 and NH3 target respectively. The blue and green points - the helicity pair 2-3 for ND3 and NH3 respectively. The green line shows the sign of the half wave plane(HWP) and the purple line - the sign of the target polarization(TPol). |
Systematic effects on the asymmetry measurement may be investigated by separating the data into two groups based on which helicity state is set first. The first group(black data points) represents the electron asymmetry observed when the first (original) helicity state is negative and its complement state is positive(helicity state #1 - state #4). The second group(red data points) represents the asymmetry observed, when the first state is positive and the complement state is negative(helicity state #2 - #3). Both groups were divided into two subgroups based the target type used. The diamond points on the histogram represent the data for the NH3 target and the squares for the ND3 target. On the same histograms are presented the signs of the half wave plane(HWP) and the target polarization(TPol). The relative spin orientation can be changed by either inserting a half wave plane (HWP) or by populating a different target polarization state with a different RF frequency. One would expect the asymmetry to change sign if either the HWP is inserted or the target polarization is rotated 180 degrees. As one can see, the electron asymmetry sign ( sign(hel1-hel4) && sign(hel3-hel2) ) is opposite of the sign of (HWP
and
Figure 2.16. Run Number vs Electron Asymmetry after applying FC normalization. The black and red points represent reconstructed electron asymmetry for the helicity 1-4 pair for ND3 and NH3 target respectively. The blue and green points - the helicity pair 2-3 for ND3 and NH3 respectively. The green line shows the sign of the half wave plane(HWP) and the purple line - the sign of the target polarization(TPol). |
Semi-Inclusive Asymmetries
The ratio of the combined semi-inclusive deep inelastic asymmetries (
The asymmetries from semi inclusive pion electroproduction using proton or deuteron targets can be written in terms of the difference of the yield when electron spin is parallel and antiparallel to the spin of the nucleon. There are totally four combinations of semi inclusive asymmetries:
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where
The kinematics for the events used in the measured asymmetries are
Figure . Kinematic plots(Invariant Mass(W), and Missing Mass( )) |
The semi inclusive asymmetries are listed in Table 4.3 (Fig. 2.18). The first group
Target type, Beam Torus sign (B) | |||
NH3, B>0, | |||
NH3, B<0, | |||
ND3, B>0, | |||
ND3, B<0, | |||
NH3, B>0, | |||
NH3, B<0, | |||
ND3, B>0, | |||
ND3, B<0, |
Table 4.3. Run Number vs SIDIS Asymmetry for Each Type Target material and Beam Torus. |
The ratio of the combined semi-inclusive deep inelastic asymmetries (
Figure 2.18. The ratio of the SIDIS asymmetries for two torus field settings vs target and the charged pion type. The black squares represent the data before inclusive rate corrections and the red data - after inclusive rate corrections has been applied. |
The data has been combined for each target type and asymmetries were measured for two
SIDI Asymmetry | ||
Table 4.4. SIDIS Asymmetries for | and .
In addition to
0.45 | ||
0.7 | ||
0.9 |
Table 4.5. SIDIS Asymmetries vs | .
Dilution Factor
To exclude the contributions from the polarized nucleons of the non-hydrogen nuclei of ammonia target(nitrogen) and the cooling material of the target(helium) cell in semi inclusive channels, the measured raw double spin asymmetries have to be divided by the so called dilution factor. The dilution factor accounts for the fraction of all events coming from the desired polarized target nucleon. The dilution factors are calculated by combining the data from the runs for different target type. During EG1b experiment, several runs were taken with carbon
In order to calculate the dilution factor, we need to define the number of counts with beam helicity negative and positive for ammonia, carbon and empty target runs. All of them are weighted by the corresponding gated faraday cup counts.<ref name="Kuhn2010"> Khun, S. E. (2010). Dilution Factor for Exclusive Channels. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.</ref>
Using above quantities we define two new spectra to account for the carbon target and the difference in the amount of helium in ammonia targets vice versa the carbon target.
where
We need to establish how the cross section from the carbon target is related to the cross from the
Using above quantities, the number of counts due to the non-hydrogen and non-deuterium parts of the ammonia target can be expressed as
The dilution factor
Item | Description | Value |
Density times target length for empty target. | Al: | ; . Kapton: ; .|
Density times target length for Carbon target. | ||
f | The ratio of counts from foils to the | slab in the Carbon target.|
density. | ||
The length of the target cell from the entrance to exit foil. | ||
density. | ||
Carbon target length. | ||
density | ||
density | ||
Ammonia target length. |
Table 4.6. Length and density values for different types of target material reproduced from EG1b experiment.<ref name="Kuhn2010"> Khun, S. E. (2010). Dilution Factor for Exclusive Channels. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.</ref> |
The fractional energy of the observed final state hadron(z) | Dilution Factor( | )
&& | |
&& |
Table 4.7. Calculated dilution Factor for NH3 target type. |
Radiative Corrections
In double spin asymmetry analysis the electron nucleon scattering process is given as an one photon exchange event, so called the Born approximation(Fig 2.19). In reality, there are multiple photon effects during the experiments. These high order processes, also called radiative effects, can be calculated and used to correct the cross section data.
There are two types of radiative corrections, internal and external. Internal radiative corrections describe the contributions, which took place during the lepton-hadron interaction. In first order approximation they include vertex photon exchange, self energy and vacuum polarization Fig. 2.20.<ref name="RadiativeCorrections"> Nucleon Form Factors. In Scholarpedia, from http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Nucleon_Form_factors#History </ref>
Figure 2.20 Internal Radiation |
On the other hand, the external radiative corrections account for the Bremsstrahlung by the incoming and scattered electron and by the recoiling target nucleon Fig. 2.21.
One of the major advantages of the double polarization experiments is the minimum contribution from the radiative corrections. For the http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/secure/eg1/EG2000/fersch/QUALITY_CHECKS/file_quality/runinfo.txt</ref>. Due to negligible contributions from the radiative corrections, they are not included in the double spin asymmetry analysis.
Fragmentation
A test of fragmentation can be performed by calculating the ratio of the difference of polarized to unpolarized cross sections for proton and neutron targets
The left side of the fragmentation function is calculated using the measured double spin asymmetries for the ammonia targets. However, the right side can be extracted using the model. At the end the last two are compared.
Systematic errors
You need to show systematic errors for the asymmetry measurements
sources of such error are polarization, dilution factor, cuts,...
Results
insert a paragraph comparing the dilution factor(don't forget polarization dilution factor) corrected positive pion asymmetry with another measurement.
I think you max Z bin should be 0.8
In the fragmentation function contributions from the cross sections of
, and are negligible. Only non zero in is the first term. After correcting the cross section difference for the target polarization, beam polarization and dilution factor, the fragmentation function for two values of and is shown on Fig. 2.22 and is compared to the Model.
Figure 2.22 | vs Fragmentation function. Black data points represent the Model, red and green data points represent fragmentation function for and respectively.
Variables | Inclusive | z=0.45 | z=0.85 |
Mean of | 0.35 | 0.35 | 0.35 |
Mean of | 0.958 | 0.765 | 1.215 |
Standard Deviation | 0.016 | 0.029 | 0.177 |
Slope | -0.22 | 0.41 | -2.5 |
Intercept | 1.04 | 0.62 | 2.09 |
Table 4.8. Statistical test for the data comparison with the model. |
Notes
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