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

• Published in: Physics letters. B 2010-01, Vol.682 (4-5), p.351-354
• Main Authors: Airapetian, A., Akopov, Z., Avakian, R., Avetisyan, E., Ball, B., Bianchi, N., Blok, H.P., Böttcher, H., Bonomo, C., Borissov, A., Bowles, J., Bryzgalov, V., Burns, J., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., Dalpiaz, P.F., Deconinck, W., De Sanctis, E., Di Nezza, P., Ehrenfried, M., Fabbri, R., Gapienko, G., Gapienko, V., Garibaldi, F., Giordano, F., Hartig, M., Hasch, D., Hill, G., Hoek, M., Holler, Y., Hristova, I., Imazu, Y., Ivanilov, A., Jackson, H.E., Jo, H.S., Joosten, S., Karyan, G., Keri, T., Kinney, E., Korotkov, V., Kozlov, V., Kravchenko, P., Lamb, R., Lapikás, L., Lenisa, P., Ruiz, A. López, Lorenzon, W., Lu, X.-G., Ma, B.-Q., Mahon, D., Makins, N.C.R., Manfré, L., Marukyan, H., Miyachi, Y., Movsisyan, A., 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., Rith, K., Rosner, G., Rostomyan, A., Rubin, J., Ryckbosch, D., Sanftl, F., Schäfer, A., Schnell, G., Schüler, K.P., Seitz, B., Shibata, T.-A., Shutov, V., Stancari, M., Steffens, E., Steijger, J.J.M., Stewart, J., Taroian, S., Terkulov, A., Trzcinski, A., Tytgat, M., 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., Zihlmann, B., Zupranski, P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Exact sciences and technology; Nuclear physics; Physics; The physics of elementary particles and fields
• ISSN: 0370-2693; 1873-2445
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.11.041

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