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A New Mechanism for Single Spin Asymmetries in Strong Interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-04-15 v5

Abstract

It is shown that the contribution of the instantons to the fragmentation of quarks leads to the appearance of a imaginary part in diagrams of quark-quark scattering at large transfer momentum. The imaginary part comes from the analytical continuation of the instanton amplitudes from Euclidean to Minkowsky space-time and reflects quasiclassical origin of instanton solution of QCD equations of motion. This phenomenon and instanton--induced quark spin-flip give a new nonperturbative mechanism for the observed anomalous single-spin asymmetries in hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron interactions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905497,
  title  = {A New Mechanism for Single Spin Asymmetries in Strong Interactions},
  author = {N. I. Kochelev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905497},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, Latex; final version to appear in JETP Lett