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Observation Of Beam Spin Asymmetries In The Process Ep → E'Π⁺Π⁻ X With Clas 12, T. B. Hayward, C. Dilks, A. Vossen, Dilini Bulumulla, Mohammad Hattawy, Florian Hauenstein, Mariana Khachatryan, Sebastian E. Kuhn, Yelena Prok, B. Yale, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, Et Al., Clas Collaboration
Observation Of Beam Spin Asymmetries In The Process Ep → E'Π⁺Π⁻ X With Clas 12, T. B. Hayward, C. Dilks, A. Vossen, Dilini Bulumulla, Mohammad Hattawy, Florian Hauenstein, Mariana Khachatryan, Sebastian E. Kuhn, Yelena Prok, B. Yale, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, Et Al., Clas Collaboration
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The observation of beam spin asymmetries in two-pion production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off an unpolarized proton target is reported. The data presented here were taken in the fall of 2018 with the CLAS12 spectrometer using a 10.6 GeV longitudinally spin-polarized electron beam delivered by CEBAF at JLab. The measured asymmetries provide the first opportunity to extract the parton distribution function e(x), which provides information about the interaction between gluons and quarks, in a collinear framework that offers cleaner access than previous measurements. The asymmetries also constitute the first ever signal sensitive to the helicity-dependent two-pion fragmentation function …