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Sivers function in light-cone quark model and azimuthal spin asymmetries in pion electroproduction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We perform a calculation of Sivers function in a light-cone SU(6) quark-diquark model with both scalar diquark and vector diquark spectators. We derive the transverse momentum dependent light-cone wave function of the proton by taking into account the Melosh-Wigner rotation. By adopting one-gluon exchange, we obtain a non-vanishing Sivers function of downdown quark from interference of proton spin amplitudes. We analyze the PhM\frac{|P_{h\perp}|}{M} weighted Sivers asymmetries in π+\pi^+, π\pi^- and π0\pi^0 electroproduction off transverse polarized proton target, averaged and not averaged by the kinematics of HERMES experiment.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0406171,
  title  = {Sivers function in light-cone quark model and azimuthal spin asymmetries in pion electroproduction},
  author = {Zhun Lu and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0406171},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 LaTex pages, 2 figures. Final version for journal publication