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Azimuthal asymmetries in $p^\uparrow p \to {\rm jet}\, \pi\, X$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We study the azimuthal asymmetries for the distributions of leading pions inside a jet produced inclusively in high-energy proton-proton collisions within the framework of the transverse momentum dependent generalized parton model. We present results for the RHIC center-of-mass energies s\sqrt{s} = 200 and 500 GeV, mainly for forward jet rapidities, in particular for the two mechanisms which dominate such asymmetries: the Sivers and the Collins effects. We also briefly discuss the case of inclusive jet production and, adopting the so-called colour gauge invariant parton model, we propose a phenomenological analysis of the process dependence of the quark Sivers function.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4743,
  title  = {Azimuthal asymmetries in $p^\uparrow p \to {\rm jet}\, \pi\, X$},
  author = {Cristian Pisano and Umberto D'Alesio and Francesco Murgia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4743},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Transverse Polarisation Phenomena in Hard Processes (Transversity 2014), Chia, Cagliari (Italy), 9-13 June 2014