New data from Belle and BaBar Collaborations on azimuthal asymmetries, measured in e+e- annihilations into pion pairs at Q^2=112 GeV^2, allow to take the first, direct glance at the transverse momentum dependence of the Collins functions, in addition to their z dependence. These data, together with available Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) data on the Collins asymmetry, are simultaneously analysed in the framework of the generalised parton model assuming two alternative Q^2 evolution schemes and exploiting two different parameterisations for the Collins functions. The corresponding results for the transversity distributions are presented. Analogous data, newly released by the BESIII Collaboration, on e+e- annihilations into pion pairs at the lower Q^2 of 13 GeV^2, offer the possibility to explore the sensitivity of these azimuthal correlations on transverse momentum dependent evolution effects.
@article{arxiv.1510.05389,
title = {Collins functions for pions from SIDIS and new e+e- data: a first glance at their transverse momentum dependence},
author = {M. Anselmino and M. Boglione and U. D'Alesio and J. O. Gonzalez Hernandez and S. Melis and F. Murgia and A. Prokudin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05389},
year = {2015}
}