Within the collinear twist-3 framework, we analyze the double-spin asymmetry in collisions between longitudinally polarized nucleons and transversely polarized nucleons with focus on hadron and jet production. As was the case in direct photon production, the double-spin dependent cross section for hadron and jet production has the advantage of involving a complete set of collinear twist-3 functions. In addition, we outline further benefits of this observable for a potential future measurement at RHIC, which includes insight on the gluon helicity distribution as well as information on the Efremov-Teryaev-Qiu-Sterman function T_F(x,x) that plays a crucial role in single-spin asymmetries.
@article{arxiv.1210.6555,
title = {Analysis of the double-spin asymmetry A_LT in inelastic nucleon-nucleon collisions},
author = {A. Metz and D. Pitonyak and A. Schaefer and J. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6555},
year = {2015}
}
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Minor changes to text, reference added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D