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Can Transversity Be Measured?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

I review the ways that have been proposed to measure the quark transversity distribution in the nucleon. I then explain a proposal, developed by Xuemin Jin, Jian Tang and myself, to measure transversity through the final state interaction between two mesons (ππ\pi\pi, KKˉK \bar K, or πK\pi K) produced in the current fragmentation region in deep inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized nucleon.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9710465,
  title  = {Can Transversity Be Measured?},
  author = {R. L. Jaffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9710465},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 postscript figures, LaTeX & BoxedEPS; invited paper, presented at the 2nd Topical Workshop, DESY Zeuthen, September 1-5, 1997: "Deep Inelastic Scattering off Polarized Targets: Theory Meets Experiment"; email to [email protected] ; name of conference and proceedings added