We present next-to-leading order predictions for double transverse-spin asymmetries in Drell--Yan dilepton production initiated by proton--antiproton scattering. The kinematic region of the proposed PAX experiment at GSI: 30≲s≲200\GeV2 and 2≲M≲7\GeV is examined. The Drell--Yan asymmetries turn out to be large, in the range 20--40%. Measuring these asymmetries would provide the cleanest determination of the quark transversity distributions.
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0512121,
title = {Double Transverse-Spin Asymmetries in Drell-Yan Processes with Antiprotons},
author = {Vincenzo Barone and Alessandro Cafarella and Claudio Coriano' and Marco Guzzi and Philip Ratcliffe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0512121},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figures, uses elsart and feynmp (included); one new reference added