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Twist-3 effect from the longitudinally polarized proton for $A_{LT}$ in hadron production from $pp$ collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We compute the contribution from the longitudinally polarized proton to the twist-3 double-spin asymmetry ALTA_{LT} in inclusive (light) hadron production from proton-proton collisions,i.e., pphXp^\uparrow \vec{p}\to h\,X. 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