General partonic structure for hadronic spin asymmetries

Details General partonic structure for hadronic spin asymmetries General partonic structure for hadronic spin asymmetries

2005-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0509035v2

Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 014020

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

RevTeX, 46 pages, 5 ps figures. v2: some clarifying comments and appendix on kinematics added, references updated, published v

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014020

The high energy and large p_T inclusive polarized process, (A, S_A) + (B, S_B) --> C + X, is considered under the assumption of a generalized QCD factorization scheme. For the first time all transverse motions, of partons in hadrons and of hadrons in fragmenting partons, are explicitly taken into account; the elementary interactions are computed at leading order with noncollinear exact kinematics, which introduces many phases in the expressions of their helicity amplitudes. Several new spin and k_T dependent soft functions appear and contribute to the cross sections and to spin asymmetries; we put emphasis on their partonic interpretation, in terms of quark and gluon polarizations inside polarized hadrons. Connections with other notations and further information are given in some Appendices. The formal expressions for single and double spin asymmetries are derived. The transverse single spin asymmetry A_N, for p(transv. polarized) p --> pion + X processes is considered in more detail, and all contributions are evaluated numerically by saturating unknown functions with their upper positivity bounds. It is shown that the integration of the phases arising from the noncollinear kinematics strongly suppresses most contributions to the single spin asymmetry, leaving at work predominantly the Sivers effect and, to a lesser extent, the Collins mechanism.

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