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Azimuthal angle dependence of di-jet production in unpolarized hadron scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We study the azimuthal angular dependence of back-to-back di-jet production in unpolarized hadron scattering HA+HBJ1+J2+XH_A+H_B \to J_1 + J_2 +X, arising from the product of two Boer-Mulders functions, which describe the transverse spin distribution of quarks inside an unpolarized hadron. We find that when the di-jet is of two identical quarks (Jq+JqJ_q+J_q) or a quark-antiquark pair (Jq+JqˉJ_q+J_{\bar{q}}), there is a cosδϕ\cos \delta \phi angular dependence of the di-jet, with δϕ=ϕ1ϕ2\delta \phi=\phi_1-\phi_2, and ϕ1\phi_1 and ϕ2\phi_2 are the azimuthal angles of the two individual jets. In the case of Jq+JqJ_q+J_q production, we find that there is a color factor enhancement in the gluonic cross-section, compared with the result from the standard generalized parton model. We estimate the cosδϕ\cos \delta \phi asymmetry of di-jet production at RHIC, showing that the color factor enhancement in the angular dependent of Jq+JqJ_q+J_q production will reverse the sign of the asymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4006,
  title  = {Azimuthal angle dependence of di-jet production in unpolarized hadron scattering},
  author = {Zhun Lu and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4006},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures, version accepted by Physical Review D