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Double Transverse-Spin Asymmetries in Drell-Yan Processes with Antiprotons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-29 v5

Abstract

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: 30s200\GeV230\lesssim{s}\lesssim200\GeV^2 and 2M7\GeV2\lesssim{M}\lesssim7\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.

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@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