Two-hadron semi-inclusive production including subleading twist
Abstract
We extend the analysis of two-hadron fragmentation functions to the subleading twist, discussing also the issue of color gauge invariance. Our results can be used anywhere two unpolarized hadrons are semi-inclusively produced in the same fragmentation region, also at moderate values of the hard scale Q. Here, we consider the example of polarized deep-inelastic production of two hadrons and we give a complete list of cross sections and spin asymmetries up to subleading twist. Among the results, we highlight the possibility of extracting the transversity distribution with longitudinally polarized targets and also the twist-3 distribution e(x), which is related to the pion-nucleon sigma term and to the strangeness content of the nucleon.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0311173,
title = {Two-hadron semi-inclusive production including subleading twist},
author = {Alessandro Bacchetta and Marco Radici},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0311173},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, RevTeX4, 5 figures, revised notation of several formulae, added text in Secs. III-V, added references