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Direct- and Resolved-Photon Threshold Resummation for Polarized High-$p_T$ Hadron Production at COMPASS

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-01 v1

Abstract

We complete our earlier study of the "direct" part of the cross section and spin asymmetry for the photoproduction process γNhX\gamma N\rightarrow h X by analysing the "resolved" contribution, for which the photon couples like a hadron through its parton structure. The incident photon and nucleon are longitudinally polarized and one observes a hadron hh at high transverse momentum pTp_T. Soft or collinear gluon emissions generate large logarithmic threshold corrections which we resum to next-to-leading logarithmic order. We compare our results with recent spin asymmetry data by the COMPASS collaboration, highlighting the role of the fragmentation functions.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08284,
  title  = {Direct- and Resolved-Photon Threshold Resummation for Polarized High-$p_T$ Hadron Production at COMPASS},
  author = {Claudia Uebler and Andreas Schäfer and Werner Vogelsang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08284},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures