Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-06-25
Nucl.Phys.B642:344-356,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LaTex, 15 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00617-X
We show that the initial-state interactions from gluon exchange between the incoming quark and the target spectator system lead to leading-twist single-spin asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process. The QCD initial-state interactions produce a $T-$odd spin-correlation between the target spin and the virtual photon production plane which is not power-law suppressed in the Drell-Yan scaling limit. The origin of the single-spin asymmetry in $\pi p^\uparrow \to \ell^+ \ell^- X$ is a phase difference between two amplitudes coupling the proton target with $J^z_p = \pm {1\over 2}$ to the same final-state, the same amplitudes which are necessary to produce a nonzero proton anomalous magnetic moment. The calculation requires the overlap of target light-front wavefunctions differing by one unit of orbital angular momentum projection $L_z;$ thus the SSA in the Drell-Yan reaction provides a direct measure of orbital angular momentum in the QCD bound state. The single-spin asymmetry predicted for the Drell-Yan process $\pi p^\uparrow \to \ell^+ \ell^- X$ is similar to the single-spin asymmetries in deep inelastic semi-inclusive leptoproduction $\ell p^\uparrow \to \ell' \pi X$ which arises from the final-state rescattering of the outgoing quark.
Brodsky Stanley J.
Hwang Dae Sung
Schmidt Ivan
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