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$T$-Odd Effects in Unpolarized Drell-Yan Scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-10-27 v1

Abstract

We consider the leading twist TT-odd contributions as the dominant source of the cos2ϕ\cos 2\phi azimuthal asymmetry in unpolarized ppˉμμ+Xp\bar{p}\to \mu\mu^+ X dilepton production in Drell-Yan Scattering. This asymmetry contains information on the distribution of quark transverse spin in an unpolarized proton. In a parton-spectator framework we estimate these asymmetries at 50GeV50 {\rm GeV} center of mass energy. This azimuthal asymmetry is interesting in light of proposed experiments at GSI, where an anti-proton beam is ideal for studying the transversity properties of quarks due to the dominance of {\em valence} quark effects.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0506127,
  title  = {$T$-Odd Effects in Unpolarized Drell-Yan Scattering},
  author = {Leonard P. Gamberg and Gary R. Goldstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0506127},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, 8 figures

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