Spin-Flavor Decomposition in Polarized Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiments at Jefferson Lab

A Jefferson Lab experiment proposal was discussed in this talk. The experiment is designed to measure the beam-target double-spin asymmetries $A_{1n}^h$ in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic $vec n({vec e}, e^prime pi^+)X$ and $vec n({vec e}, e^prime pi^-)X$ reactions on a longitudinally polarized $^3$He target. In addition to $A_{1n}^h$, the flavor non-singlet combination $A_{1n}^{pi^+ - pi^-}$, in which the gluons do not contribute, will be determined with high precision to extract $Delta d_v(x)$ independent of the knowledge of the fragmentation functions. The data will also impose strong constraints on quark and gluon polarizations through a global NLO QCD fit.