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Beam spin asymmetries of π<sup>+</sup>π<sup>0</sup> and π<sup>-</sup>π<sup>0</sup> dihadrons from SIDIS at CLAS12

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Abstract

Spin asymmetries provide a wide range of insights into nucleon structure and hadronization. Recent measurements of beam spin asymmetries of π+π- dihadrons from SIDIS at CLAS12 provide the first empirical evidence of a nonzero G1, the parton helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation function (DiFF) encoding spin-momentum correlations in hadronization. These measurements have been extended to help further characterize H1 and H1, the DiFFs dependent on parton transverse spin, via a multidimensional partial wave analysis, giving access to the dependence on the interference of dihadrons of particular polarizations. Reconstruction of π0s allows for further extension of these measurements to π+π0 and π-π0 dihadrons. The DiFFs describing π+π- production differ from those describing π+π0 and π-π0 production, which involve different quark flavors along with a strong suppression of the exclusive diffractive contribution. This presentation will focus on comparisons of beam spin asymmetries for these three dihadron flavors, which will help shed light on a more comprehensive picture of dihadron fragmentation.

Presenters

  • Christopher J Dilks

    Duke University

Authors

  • Christopher J Dilks

    Duke University