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Azimuthal Asymmetries in Unpolarised Semi-Inclusive DIS at COMPASS

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2022

Abstract

In semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) the non-zero transverse momentum of partons induces azimuthal dependence of the cross-section. For an unpolarised nucleon, three azimuthal modulations that can be related to different combinations of twist-two or higher-twist transverse momentum dependent PDFs and fragmentation functions arise: the so-called Cahn effect reflected in a cosφhcosφh modulation, the cos2φhcos2φh term related to the Boer-Mulders PDF and sinφhsinφh effect known as beam-spin asymmetry.

In 2016 and 2017, the COMPASS experiment at CERN collected a large sample of SIDIS events using a longitudinally polarised 160 GeV/c muon beam scattering on a liquid hydrogen target. Amplitudes of the aforementioned azimuthal modulations have been extracted from part of the data.

A new procedure has been developed to subtract a background coming from the decay of diffractively produced vector mesons. The results presented in this talk qualitatively agree with earlier COMPASS results obtained with an isoscalar target.