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Novel effects in twist-three SSA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-17 v1

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 ψˉγA+ψ\langle\bar\psi\gamma_\perp A^+\psi\rangle related traditionally to dT(x,x)/dxdT(x,x)/dx. 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-33 terms present in the hadron tensor of the considering process in addition to the standard twist-33 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}
}

Comments

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

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