Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-11-24
Nucl.Phys.B586:382-396,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, ReVTeX, 13 .eps figures. The subsection added to correspond to journal version
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00399-0
We analyze in the framework of pQCD the properties of the single spin asymmetry in heavy flavor production by linearly polarized photons. At leading order, the parallel- perpendicular asymmetry in azimuthal distributions of both charm and bottom quark is predicted to be about 20% in a wide region of initial energy. Our analysis shows that the next-to-leading order corrections practically do not affect the Born predictions for the azimuthal asymmetry at energies of the fixed target experiments. Both leading and next-to-leading order predictions for the asymmetry are insensitive to within few percent to theoretical uncertainties in the QCD input parameters: $m_{Q}$, $\mu_{R}$, $\mu_{F}$, $\Lambda_{QCD}$ and in the gluon distribution function. We estimate also nonperturbative contributions to azimuthal distributions due to the gluon transverse motion in the target and the final quark fragmentation. Our calculations show that nonperturbative corrections to a $B$-meson azimuthal asymmetry are negligible. We conclude that measurements of the single spin asymmetry would provide a good test of pQCD applicability to heavy flavor production at fixed target energies.
Capella Antonio
Ivanov Ya. N.
Kaidalov Alexei B.
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