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Transversity distributions and spin asymmetries

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We discuss transversity distributions and transverse spin asymmetries. First, Q2Q^2 evolution results are shown for transversity and longitudinally polarized distributions. Second, the antiquark flavor asymmetry ΔTuˉ/ΔTdˉ\Delta_{_T} \bar u/\Delta_{_T} \bar d is discussed in two different descriptions, a meson-cloud model and an exclusion model. Both calculations produce a significant ΔTdˉ\Delta_T \bar d excess over ΔTuˉ\Delta_{_T} \bar u. Third, we explain general formalism of the polarized proton-deuteron Drell-Yan processes. This study is partly intended to find the asymmetry ΔTuˉ/ΔTdˉ\Delta_{_T} \bar u/\Delta_{_T} \bar d by the p-d asymmetry. However, the existence of tensor structure in the deuteron produces a number of new structure functions. There exist 108 structure functions and 22 ones even after integrating the cross section over the virtual-photon transverse momentum QT\vec Q_T.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810444,
  title  = {Transversity distributions and spin asymmetries},
  author = {S. Hino and M. Hirai and S. Kumano and M. Miyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810444},
  year   = {2007}
}

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1+3 pages, LATEX with amsmath.sty, epsfig.sty, wrapfig.sty, and sprocl.sty, 2 eps figures. Talk given at the 13th International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics. Protvino, Russia, Sept. 8 -- 12, 1998, to be published in proceedings by the World Scientific. Complete postscript file including the figures is also available at http://www2.cc.saga-u.ac.jp/saga-u/riko/physics/quantum1/structure.html Email: 97sm16@edu.cc.saga-u.ac.jp, 98td25@edu.cc.saga-u.ac.jp, kumanos@cc.saga-u.ac.jp, 96td25@edu.cc.saga-u.ac.jp

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