Twist-3 effect from the longitudinally polarized proton for $A_{LT}$ in hadron production from $pp$ collisions
Abstract
We compute the contribution from the longitudinally polarized proton to the twist-3 double-spin asymmetry in inclusive (light) hadron production from proton-proton collisions,i.e., . We show that using the relevant QCD equation-of-motion relation and Lorentz invariance relation allows one to eliminate the twist-3 quark-gluon correlator (associated with the longitudinally polarized proton) in favor of one-variable twist-3 quark distributions and the (twist-2) transversity parton density. Including this result with the twist-3 pieces associated with the transversely polarized proton and unpolarized final-state hadron (which have already been calculated in the literature), we now have the complete leading-order cross section for this process.
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@article{arxiv.1603.07908,
title = {Twist-3 effect from the longitudinally polarized proton for $A_{LT}$ in hadron production from $pp$ collisions},
author = {Yuji Koike and Daniel Pitonyak and Shinsuke Yoshida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07908},
year = {2016}
}
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12 pages, 4 figures