Hall A Transversity Experiment (E-06-010/E-06-011, update of E-03-004)

Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive

Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized ³He Target

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About this experiment

Updated Proposals for PAC29: Approved with A rating, combined beam time of 29 days.

Pion- transversity [E-06-010]: (.ps) Spokespersons:Jian-ping Chen, Xiaodong Jiang (contact), Jen-Chieh Peng
Pion+ transversity [E-06-011]: (.ps) Spokespersons:Evaristo Cisbani, Haiyan Gao, Xiaodong Jiang (contact)
One page summary of E-06-010 and E-06-011: (.ps)

Other relevant proposals:

Parasite A_T experiment (Inclusive SSA measurement ) [PR-06-012,Deferred]: (.ps)
A_y experiment (quasi-elastic SSA measurement) [E-05-015,B⁺ 8days]: (.pdf)
³He(e,e'd) experiment [E-05-102,A^- 15days]: (.pdf)
Old Proposal [E-03-004,B⁺ 24days]]: (.pdf) , (.ps); One page slide: (.ps)

Publications

Results Table

Single Spin Asymmetries in Charged Pion Production from Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target - The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration (Qian, X. et al.) Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 072003 . arXiv:1106.0363 [nucl-ex] . JLAB-PHY-11-1332

Beam-Target Double Spin Asymmetry A_LT in Charged Pion Production from Deep Inelastic Scattering on a Transversely Polarized He-3 Target at 1.4<Q^2<2.7 GeV^2 - Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration (Huang, J. et al.) Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 052001 . arXiv:1108.0489 [nucl-ex]

Single Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Hadrons Produced in Electron Scattering from a Transversely Polarized 3He Target - Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration (Allada, K. et al.) Phys.Rev. C89 (2014) 042201 . arXiv:1311.1866 [nucl-ex]

Measurement of pretzelosity asymmetry of charged pion production in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering on a polarized 3He target - Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration (Y. Zhang, et al.) . Phys.Rev. C90 (2014) 055209. arXiv:1312.3047 [nucl-ex] . JLAB-PHY-13-1832

Single spin asymmetries in charged kaon production from semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized 3He target - Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration (Y.X. Zhao, et al.) Phys.Rev. C90 (2014) 055201 . arXiv:1404.7204 [nucl-ex]

Double Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Hadron Electroproductions from a Transversely Polarized 3He Target - Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration (Y.X. Zhao, et al.) . Phys. Rev. C 92, 015207 (arXiv:1502.01394) [nucl-ex] . JLAB-PHY-15-2027

Transversity Collaboration Meetings

July 21, 2008: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
May 02, 2008: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
March 17, 2008: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
Dec 11, 2007: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
Oct 09, 2007: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
July 09, 2007: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
May 04, 2007: Transversity Collaboration Meeting. Click here
Mar.19, 2007: Readiness Review of the BigBite Family of Experiments. Click here for the talks.
Feb.20, 2007: Transversity Collaboration Meeting, click here
Nov. 3, 2006: Transversity Collaboration Meeting, click here
Aug. 30, 2006: Transversity On-site Meeting, click here
Mar. 6, 2006--present: The Weekly Transversity On-site Meetings (minutes: mar06, mar13, mar20, ... )
Apr. 11, 2006: Transversity Collaboration Meeting (combined with polarized He3 Collaboration Meeting), click here
Feb. 2, 2006: Transversity Collaboration Meeting (combined with polarized He3 Collaboration Meeting ), click here
Oct. 21, 2005: The Third Transversity Collaboration Meeting (combined with polarized He3 Collaboration Meeting ), click here
Mar. 4, 2005: The Second Transversity Collaboration Meeting, click here
Dec. 1, 2004: The First Transversity Collaboration Meeting, click here

Presentations/Workshops/Conferences

2010

June 2010: Workshop on TMDs, Italy. here

2009

May 2009: APS April Meeting, Denver here

2008

June 2008: PKU-RBRC Workshop on Transverse Spin Physics 2008, Bejing. here
May 2008: Transversity 2008, Italy. here

2007
- Dec 2007: Talk on Transversity by Feng Yuan in Hall A Collaboration Meeting, (.ppt)
- June 2007: ECT, Italy: Talks on Transverse momentum, spin, and position distributions of partons in hadrons, click here
- Apr 2007: Parity-violating Spin Asymmetries at RHIC, BNL Workshop, click here
2006

Jun 2006: 2nd Workshop on the QCD Structure of the Nucleon, Italy, click here
Jun 2006: Transverse Spin, RHIC/AGS User's Meeting, BNL, click here
June 2006: 'An overview of Hall A neutron transversity experiments' by Evaristo Cisbani at Hall A Collaboration Meeting (.pdf)
Jun 2006: JLab User's Group Meeting, 'Transversity at Hall A' by Lingyan Zhu (.pdf) and click here for the poster (.ppt)
Apr 2006: DIS 2006, Spin Physics Working Group, click here
Jan 2006: PAC29 by Jen-Chieh Peng (on pion-)(.ppt) (.pdf) and Xiaodong Jiang (on pion+) (.ps)

2005

Sep 2005: 'Neutron Transversity at Jefferson Lab' by Jian-Ping Chen at Transversity Workshop, Como, Italy. (.ppt)
Sep 2005: Transversity Workshop, Como, Italy, click here
Sep 2005: DNP Mini-Symposium on "Orbital Motion of Quarks in Hard Scattering", click here
Apr 2005: DIS 2005, Spin Physics Working Group, click here

2004

Jun 2004: HiX2004 Workshop, click here
Jun 2004: International Workshop on Transversity (New Developments in Nucleon Spin Structure), click here
Apr 2004: DIS 2004 XII, Working Group F. Spin Physics, click here

2003

Oct 2003: 'Perspectives on SSA with a transversely polarized 3He target in JLab Hall-A'
by Jen-Chieh Peng at Transversity Workshop Athens, Greece (.ppt) , (.ps.gz)

Aug 2003: The 4th Circum-Pan-Pacific Symposium On High Energy Spin Physics (SPIN 2003)
'Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized 3He Target'
by Xiaodong Jiang at Seattle (.pdf) , (.ps)
Mar 2003: 1st Urbana Study Group Mini-Workshop on Single Spin Asymmetries

'Single Spin Asymmetry Experiments at JLab'

by Jen-Chieh Peng at UIUC (.pdf)

Jan 2003: PAC23 by Xiaodong Jiang (.ps)

Relevant Links

Some of the technical details and Xiaodong Jiang's work, click here
Oct. 2003: 'Some of the technical details and Xiaodong Jiang's work' (.ps.gz)
Mar 2003: 1st Urbana Study Group Mini-Workshop on Single Spin Asymmetries at UIUC, click here

An experimentalist's attempt at a summary by Naomi Makins (.ps.gz)
'SSA at HERMES ' by Naomi Makins (.pdf)
'RHIC Plans to Measure Transversity' by Matthias Crosse Perdekamp (.pdf)

Index of HERMES documents/links, click here

Oct. 2003: 'First Transverse Target Data from Hermes' by Naomi Makins (.ps.gz)

Old stuff

Last updated: April, 2014. Maintained by Kalyan Allada