English
Related papers

Related papers: Twist-three Fragmentation Function Contribution to…

200 papers

We calculate the single transverse-spin asymmetry for open charm production in $pp$ collisions within the QCD collinear factorization approach. We include contributions from both twist-three quark-gluon and tri-gluon correlation functions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu , Werner Vogelsang , Feng Yuan

Measurements of double helicity asymmetries for inclusive hadron production in polarized proton-proton collisions are sensitive to spin-dependent parton distribution functions, in particular to the gluon distribution function. This study…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-09-01 Frank Ellinghaus

We investigate the scaling properties in inclusive hadron production and the associated single transverse spin asymmetry in the forward rapidity region at RHIC. We find that the spin-averaged experimental data in both $pp$ and $dAu$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-08 Zhong-Bo Kang , Feng Yuan

The general formalism to describe single spin asymmetries in hadron-hadron high energy and large $p_T$ inclusive production within the QCD-improved parton model and assuming the factorization theorem to hold for higher twist contributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauro Anselmino , M. Elena Boglione , Francesco Murgia

We apply collinear expansion to inclusive hadron production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation and derive a formalism suitable for systematic study of leading as well as higher twist contributions to fragmentation functions at the tree level. We make…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Shu-yi Wei , Yu-kun Song , Zuo-tang Liang

We present the complete results up to twist-3 for hadron production in the target fragmentation region of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering with a polarized lepton beam and polarized nucleon target. The nonperturbative effects are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 K. B. Chen , J. P. Ma , X. B. Tong

A formula for the single transverse spin asymmetry in the large-$p_T$ pion production in the nucleon-nucleon collision is derived. We focuss on the chiral-odd contribution where the transversity distribution and the chiral-odd…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Kanazawa , Yuji Koike

We study the single-transverse spin asymmetry for open charm production in the semi-inclusive lepton-hadron deep inelastic scattering. We calculate the asymmetry in terms of the QCD collinear factorization approach for $D$ mesons at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu

We present the systematic results for three dimensional fragmentation functions of spin one hadrons defined via quark-quark correlator. There are totally 72 such fragmentation functions, among them 18 are twist-2, 36 are twist-3 and 18 are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-10 Kai-bao Chen , Wei-hua Yang , Shu-yi Wei , Zuo-tang Liang

We derive the single-spin-dependent cross section for the Drell-Yan lepton-pair production and the direct-photon production in the $pp$-collision induced by the twist-3 three-gluon correlation functions in the transversely polarized nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Yuji Koike , Shinsuke Yoshida

Within the collinear twist-3 framework, we analyze the double-spin asymmetry in collisions between longitudinally polarized nucleons and transversely polarized nucleons with focus on hadron and jet production. As was the case in direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Metz , D. Pitonyak , A. Schaefer , J. Zhou

Large transverse single-spin asymmetries, A_{N}, have been observed in forward hadron production at RHIC. STAR has reported precision measurements of the x_{F}-p_{T} dependence of A_{N} for forward pi^0 production. Contrary to expectation,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-08-24 J. L. Drachenberg

We present an estimate of a chiral-odd contribution to the single transverse-spin asymmetry in the large-$p_T$ pion production in the nucleon-nucleon collision. In this contribution the transversity distribution and the chiral-odd…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Kanazawa , Yuji Koike

Working with a completely collinear twist-3 factorized cross-section formula, we identify two largely dominant partonic sub-processes, which contribute to the single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive pion production, in the region of large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-28 Philip G. Ratcliffe , Marco Ramilli

We analyze single transverse-spin asymmetries for hadronic pion production at large transverse momenta using QCD factorization. In the large $x_F$ region, leading contributions to the asymmetries are naturally produced by twist-3 parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jianwei Qiu , George Sterman

It is shown that the azimuthal dependence of the distribution of hadrons in a quark jet is a probe of the transverse spin of the quark initiating the jet. This results in a new spin-dependent fragmentation function that acts at the twist-2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 John Collins

We compute the transverse single spin asymmetry in forward $p^\uparrow p \to hX$ and $p^\uparrow A \to hX$ collisions from the odderon mechanism originally suggested by Kovchegov and Sievert [1]. Working in the hybrid approach of the Color…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-04 Sanjin Benić , Davor Horvatić , Abhiram Kaushik , Eric Andreas Vivoda

We study the beam spin asymmetry $A_{LU}^{\sin\phi_h}$ in semi-inclusive $\pi^0$ electroproduction contributed by the T-odd twist-3 distribution function $g^\perp(x,k_T^2)$. We calculate this transverse momentum dependent distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Wenjuan Mao , Zhun Lu

We analyse the twist-three amplitudes that can give rise to single-spin asymmetries in hadron-hadron scattering; in so doing we bring to light a novel factorisation property. As already known, the requirement of an imaginary part leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Philip G. Ratcliffe

We present the first measurement of the cross section and the double longitudinal spin asymmetry of inclusive pi0 production in polarized p+p collisions at Sqrt(s) = 200 GeV at mid-rapidity with the STAR detector, using the barrel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Frank Simon