Search for a two-photon exchange contribution to inclusive deep-inelastic scattering

Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Search for a two-photon exchange contribution to inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. Physics Letters B, 682(4-5), pp. 351-354. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.11.041)

Abstract

The transverse-target single-spin asymmetry for inclusive deep-inelastic scattering with effectively unpolarized electron and positron beams off a transversely polarized hydrogen target was measured, with the goal of searching for a two-photon exchange signal in the kinematic range 0.007<xB<0.9 and . In two separate regions and , and for both electron and positron beams, the asymmetries are found to be consistent with zero within statistical and systematic uncertainties, which are of order 10−3 for the asymmetries integrated over xB.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mahon, Dr David and Murray, Dr Morgan and Hoek, Mr Matthias and Keri, Dr Tibor and Hill, Mr Gordon and Burns, Mr Jonathan and Bowles, Ms Jennifer and Kaiser, Professor Ralf and Lehmann, Dr Inti and Rosner, Professor Guenther
• Authors: Airapetian, A., Akopov, N., Akopov, Z., Aschenauer, E.C., Augustyniak, W., Avakian, R., Avetissian, A., Avetisyan, E., Ball, B., Belostotski, S., Bianchi, N., Blok, H.P., Böttcher, H., Bonomo, C., Borissov, A., Bowles, J., Bryzgalov, V., Burns, J., Capitani, G.P., Cisbani, E., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., Dalpiaz, P.F., Deconinck, W., De Nardo, L., De Sanctis, E., Diefenthaler, M., Di Nezza, P., Düren, M., Ehrenfried, M., Elbakian, G., Ellinghaus, F., Fabbri, R., Fantoni, A., Felawka, L., Frullani, S., Gabbert, D., Gapienko, G., Gapienko, V., Garibaldi, F., Gharibyan, V., Giordano, F., Gliske, S., Hadjidakis, C., Hartig, M., Hasch, D., Hill, G., Hillenbrand, A., Hoek, M., Holler, Y., Hristova, I., Imazu, Y., Ivanilov, A., Jackson, H.E., Jo, H.S., Joosten, S., Kaiser, R., Karyan, G., Keri, T., Kinney, E., Kisselev, A., Korotkov, V., Kozlov, V., Kravchenko, P., Lagamba, L., Lamb, R., Lapikás, L., Lehmann, I., Lenisa, P., Ruiz, A. L., Lorenzon, W., Lu, X.-G., Lu, X.-R., Ma, B.-Q., Mahon, D., Makins, N.C.R., Manfré, L., Mao, Y., Marianski, B., Martínez de la Ossa, A., Marukyan, H., Miller, C.A., Miyachi, Y., Movsisyan, A., Muccifora, V., Murray, M., Mussgiller, A., Naryshkin, Y., Nass, A., Negodaev, M., Nowak, W.-D., Pappalardo, L.L., Perez-Benito, R., Raithel, M., Reimer, P.E., Reolon, A.R., Riedl, C., Rith, K., Rosner, G., Rostomyan, A., Rubin, J., Ryckbosch, D., Salomatin, Y., Sanftl, F., Schäfer, A., Schnell, G., Schüler, K.P., Seitz, B., Shibata, T.-A., Shutov, V., Stancari, M., Statera, M., Steffens, E., Steijger, J.J.M., Stenzel, H., Stewart, J., Stinzing, F., Taroian, S., Terkulov, A., Trzcinski, A., Tytgat, M., Vandenbroucke, A., van der Nat, P.B., Van Haarlem, Y., Van Hulse, C., Varanda, M., Veretennikov, D., Vikhrov, V., Vilardi, I., Wang, S., Yaschenko, S., Ye, H., Ye, Z., Yu, W., Zeiler, D., Zihlmann, B., and Zupranski, P.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physics Letters B
• Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
• ISSN: 0370-2693
• ISSN (Online): 1873-2445
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2009 Elsevier B.V.
• First Published: First published in Physics Letters B 682(4-5):351-354
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