Transverse Double-Spin Asymmetries for Muon Pair Production in pp-Collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-25 v2
Abstract
We calculate the rapidity dependence of the transverse double-spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan process to next-to-leading order in the strong coupling. Input transversity distributions are obtained by saturating the Soffer inequality at a low hadronic mass scale. Results for the polarized BNL-RHIC proton-proton collider and the proposed HERA-N fixed-target experiment are presented, and the influence of the limited muon acceptance of the detectors on measurements of the asymmetry is studied in detail.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902250,
title = {Transverse Double-Spin Asymmetries for Muon Pair Production in pp-Collisions},
author = {O. Martin and A. Schafer and M. Stratmann and W. Vogelsang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902250},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages including 5 figures; significantly shortened, to be published in Phys. Rev. D