Spin versus helicity in processes involving transversity

Details Spin versus helicity in processes involving transversity Spin versus helicity in processes involving transversity

2011-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/1109.1539v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages submitted to PRD

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We construct the spin formalism in order to deal in a direct and natural way with processes involving transversity which are now of increasing popularity. The helicity formalism which is more appropriate for collision processes of definite helicity has been so far used also to manage processes with transversity, but at the price of computing numerous helicity amplitudes generally involving unnecessary kinematical variables.In a second step we work out the correspondence between both formalisms and retrieve in another way all results of the helicity formalism but in simpler forms.We then compute certain processes for comparison.A special process:the quark dipole magnetic moment is shown to be exclusively treated within the spin formalism as it is directly related to the transverse spin of the quark inside the baryon.

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