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Status on the transversity parton distribution: the dihadron fragmentation functions way

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-06-11 v1

Abstract

We report on the extraction of dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF) from the semiinclusive production of two hadron pairs in back-to-back jets in e+e- annihilation. A nonzero asymmetry in the correlation of azimuthal orientations of opposite π+π\pi^+\pi^- pairs is related to the transverse polarization of fragmenting quarks through a significant polarized DiFF. A combined analysis of this asymmetry and the spin asymmetry in the SIDIS process epe(π+π)Xep^{\uparrow}\to e'(\pi^+\pi^-)X has led to the first extraction of the u and d-flavor transversity parton distribution function in the framework of collinear factorization.

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@article{arxiv.1206.1836,
  title  = {Status on the transversity parton distribution: the dihadron fragmentation functions way},
  author = {A. Courtoy and Alessandro Bacchetta and Marco Radici},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1836},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of the XX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering, Bonn, Germany, March 26-30, 2012 and of the Sixth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Palaiseau, France, April 16-20, 2012. Contain DISproc.cls and .bst