Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-12-28
Eur.Phys.J.C49:967-971,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
5 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. J
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0174-6
We investigate the cos 2 phi azimuthal asymmetry in Drell--Yan and J/psi production from unpolarized ppbar scattering at GSI-HESR energies. The contribution to this asymmetry arising from the leading-twist Boer-Mulders function h_1^perp(x, k_T^2), which describes a correlation between the transverse momentum and the transverse spin of quarks in an unpolarized hadron, is explicitly evaluated, and predictions for the GSI-HESR kinematic regime are presented. We show that the cos 2 phi asymmetry is quite sizable both on the J/psi peak and in the Drell-Yan continuum region. Therefore these processes may offer an experimentally viable access to the Boer-Mulders function in the early unpolarized stage of GSI experiments.
Barone Vincenzo
Lu Zhun
Ma Bo-Qiang
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