Novel effects in twist-three SSA
Abstract
We discuss the role of gluon poles and the gauge invariance for the hadron tensors of Drell-Yan and direct photon production processes with the transversely polarized hadron. These hadron tensors are needed to construct the corresponding single spin asymmetries. For the Drell-Yan process, we perform our analysis within both the Feynman and axial-type (contour) gauges for gluons. In both the Feynman and contour gauges, we demonstrate that the gauge invariance leads to the need of the new (non-standard) diagrams. Moreover, in the Feynman gauge, we argue the absence of gluon poles in the correlators related traditionally to . As a result, these terms disappear from the final QED gauge invariant Drell-Yan hadron tensor. For the direct photon production, by using the contour gauge for gluon fields, we find that there are new twist- terms present in the hadron tensor of the considering process in addition to the standard twist- terms.
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@article{arxiv.1512.02501,
title = {Novel effects in twist-three SSA},
author = {I. V. Anikin and O. V. Teryaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02501},
year = {2016}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures, Based on materials presented at XVI Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics, DSPIN-15 Dubna, Russia, September 8 - 12, 2015 and 6th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at Electron-Ion Collider, POETIC VI, Palaiseau, France, 7-11 September 2015