We evaluate the azimuthal asymmetries for the distributions of leading pions inside a jet, produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions, in kinematic configurations currently under active investigation at RHIC. Adopting a transverse momentum dependent approach, which assumes the validity of a perturbative QCD factorization scheme and takes into account all the spin and intrinsic parton motion effects, we show how the main mechanisms underlying these asymmetries, namely the Sivers and the Collins effects, can be disentangled. Furthermore, we consider the impact of color-gauge invariant initial and final state interactions and suggest a method for testing the universality properties of the Sivers function for quarks.
@article{arxiv.1303.4557,
title = {Azimuthal distributions of pions inside jets at RHIC},
author = {Umberto D'Alesio and Francesco Murgia and Cristian Pisano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4557},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the QCD structure of the nucleon (QCD-N'12), Bilbao (Spain), 22-26 October 2012