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Transversity and inclusive two-pion production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

A model for dihadron fragmentation functions is briefly outlined, that describes the fragmentation of a quark in two unpolarized hadrons. The parameters are tuned to the output of the PYTHIA event generator for two-hadron semi-inclusive production in deep inelastic scattering at HERMES. Then, predictions are made for the unknown polarized fragmentation function and the related single-spin asymmetry in the azimuthal distribution of π+π\pi^+ \pi^- pairs in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on transversely polarized targets at HERMES and COMPASS. This asymmetry can be used to extract the quark transversity distribution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0701183,
  title  = {Transversity and inclusive two-pion production},
  author = {Marco Radici},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0701183},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 composite figures, talk presented at the 17th International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN2006), Kyoto (Japan), October 2-7, 2006

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