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Tensor polarization dependent fragmentation functions and e+e-\to V \pi X at high energies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-10 v1

Abstract

We present the systematic results for three dimensional fragmentation functions of spin one hadrons defined via quark-quark correlator. There are totally 72 such fragmentation functions, among them 18 are twist-2, 36 are twist-3 and 18 are twist-4. We also present the relationships between the twist-3 parts and those defined via quark-gluon-quark correlator obtained from the QCD equation of motion. We show that two particle semi-inclusive hadron production process e+eVπXe^+e^-\to V\pi X at high energies is one of the best places to study the three-dimensional tensor polarization dependent fragmentation functions. We present the general kinematic analysis of this process and show that the cross section should be expressed in terms of 81 independent structure functions. After that we present parton model results for the hadronic tensor, the structure functions, the azimuthal and spin asymmetries in terms of these gauge invariant fragmentation functions at the leading order pQCD up to twist-3.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.07790,
  title  = {Tensor polarization dependent fragmentation functions and e+e-\to V \pi X at high energies},
  author = {Kai-bao Chen and Wei-hua Yang and Shu-yi Wei and Zuo-tang Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07790},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

30 pages, 3 figures, supersedes 1505.02856

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