Universality of T-odd effects in single spin and azimuthal asymmetries

Details Universality of T-odd effects in single spin and azimuthal asymmetries Universality of T-odd effects in single spin and azimuthal asymmetries

2003-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0303034v3

Nucl.Phys.B667:201-241,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

29 pages, Revtex, 26 Postscript figures; abstract, introduction and section VIIC significantly modified and appendix B replace

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00527-3

We analyze the transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions in space-like and time-like hard processes involving at least two hadrons, in particular 1-particle inclusive leptoproduction, the Drell-Yan process and two-particle inclusive hadron production in electron-positron annihilation. As is well-known, transverse momentum dependence allows for the appearance of unsuppressed single spin azimuthal asymmetries, such as Sivers and Collins asymmetries. Recently, Belitsky, Ji and Yuan obtained fully color gauge invariant expressions for the relevant matrix elements appearing in these asymmetries at leading order in an expansion in the inverse hard scale. We rederive these results and extend them to observables at the next order in this expansion. We observe that at leading order one retains a probability interpretation, contrary to a claim in the literature and show the direct relation between the Sivers effect in single spin asymmetries and the Qiu-Sterman mechanism. We also study fragmentation functions, where the process dependent gauge link structure of the correlators is not the only source of T-odd observables and discuss the implications for universality.

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