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General helicity formalism for two-hadron production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation within a TMD approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-10-27 v1

Abstract

We present the complete leading-order results for the azimuthal dependences and polarization observables in e+eh1h2+Xe^+e^-\to h_1 h_2 + X processes, where the two hadrons are produced almost back-to-back, within a transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization scheme. We consider spinless (or unpolarized) and spin-1/2 hadron production and give the full set of the corresponding quark and gluon TMD fragmentation functions (TMD-FFs). By adopting the helicity formalism, which allows for a more direct probabilistic interpretation, single- and double-polarization cases are discussed in detail. Simplified expressions, useful for phenomenological analyses, are obtained by assuming a factorized Gaussian-like dependence on intrinsic transverse momenta for the TMD-FFs.

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@article{arxiv.2108.05632,
  title  = {General helicity formalism for two-hadron production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation within a TMD approach},
  author = {Umberto D'Alesio and Francesco Murgia and Marco Zaccheddu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05632},
  year   = {2021}
}

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46 pages, 2 figures