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Double Sivers effect asymmetries and their impact on transversity measurements at RHIC

We study double transverse spin asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process at measured transverse momentum of the lepton pair. Contrary to what a collinear factorization approach would suggest, a nonzero double transverse spin asymmetry in the…

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Boer-Mulders function of the pion and pretzelosity distribution of the proton in the polarized pion-proton Drell-Yan process at COMPASS

We present a phenomenological analysis of the $q_{\mathrm{T}}$-weighted transverse spin dependent azimuthal asymmetry recently measured by the COMPASS Collaboration in polarized pion-proton Drell-Yan process. In the kinematical regimes…

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The COMPASS spin physics program

One of the main aims of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is the study of the spin structure of the nucleon and in particular the determination of the gluon polarization in the nucleon. We present some new results of 2002-2003 data analysis.…

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Spin Orbit Correlations and the Structure of the Nucleon

Extensive experimental measurements of spin and azimuthal asymmetries in various processes have stimulated theoretical interest and progress in studies of the nucleon structure. Interpretation of experimental data in terms of parton…

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Transverse spin-dependent azimuthal correlations of charged pion pairs measured in p$^\uparrow$+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV

The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, and is only loosely constrained by global fits to existing…

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Non-perturbative structure of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic and Drell-Yan scattering at small transverse momentum

We consider semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and Drell-Yan events within transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization. Based on the simultaneous fit of multiple data points, we extract the unpolarized TMD distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

Impact of double TMD effects on transversity measurements at RHIC

A quantitative estimate is presented for the double transverse spin asymmetries at measured q_T in both the Drell-Yan process and W-boson production due to Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) effects. These spin asymmetries are calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Wilco J. den Dunnen , Daniel Boer , Aram Kotzinian

Transversity and Collins functions from SIDIS and e+e- data

A global analysis of the experimental data on azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS), from the HERMES and COMPASS Collaborations, and in e+e- --> h1 h2 X processes, from the BELLE Collaboration, is…

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AnDY : Overview and Plans Feasibility Test of Large Rapidity Drell-Yan Production at RHIC

Measuring the single transverse spin asymmetry $A_N$ for large $x_F$ Drell-Yan production provides the most robust test of our current theoretical understanding of transverse proton spin structure. This includes a measurement of the…

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Transverse single spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan processes

Recently, it has been shown, contrary to previous beliefs, that the k_T distribution of quarks in a transversely polarized proton can be asymmetric. This ``Sivers effect'' had already been used to explain transverse single spin asymmetries…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Anselmino , U. D'Alesio , F. Murgia

Hadron Spectroscopy with COMPASS at CERN

The aim of the COMPASS hadron programme is to study the light-quark hadron spectrum, and in particular, to search for evidence of hybrids and glueballs. COMPASS is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS and features a two-stage…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Karin Schoenning

Spin Physics Experiments at NICA-SPD with polarized proton and deuteron beams

We propose to perform measurements of asymmetries of the Drell-Yan (DY) pairs production in collisions of non-polarized, longitudinally and transversally polarized protons and deuterons which provide an access to all leading twist collinear…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 I. A. Savin , A. V. Efremov , D. V. Peshekhonov , A. D. Kovalenko , O. V. Teryaev , O. Yu. Shevchenko , A. P. Nagajcev , A. V. Guskov , V. V. Kukhtin , N. D. Topilin

The COMPASS Hadron Spectroscopy Programme

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High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Austregesilo

Beyond Collins and Sivers: further measurements of the target transverse spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive DIS from COMPASS

In semi-inclusive DIS of polarized leptons on a transversely polarized target eight azimuthal modulations appear in the cross-section. Within QCD parton model four azimuthal asymmetries can be interpreted at leading order, two of them being…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Aram Kotzinian

A partonic description of the transverse target single-spin asymmetry in inclusive DIS

The single-spin asymmetry of unpolarized leptons scattering deep-inelastically off transversely polarized nucleons is studied in a partonic picture within a collinear twist-3 framework. Since this observable is generated by multi-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-28 Marc Schlegel

Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution/Fragmentation Functions at an Electron-Ion Collider

We present a summary of a recent workshop held at Duke University on Partonic Transverse Momentum in Hadrons: Quark Spin-Orbit Correlations and Quark-Gluon Interactions. The transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions…

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Azimuthal asymmetries in single polarized proton-proton Drell-Yan processes

We study the azimuthal asymmetries in proton-proton Drell-Yan processes with one incident proton being transversely or longitudinally polarized. We consider particularly the asymmetries contributed by the leading-twist chiral-odd quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhun Lu , Bo-Qiang Ma , Jiacai Zhu

Double spin azimuthal asymmetries A_{LT} and A_{LL} in semi-inclusive DIS

Within the LO QCD parton model of SIDIS with unintegrated quark distribution and fragmentation functions we study the transverse momentum and azimuthal dependencies of the double spin asymmetries $A_{LT}$ and $A_{LL}$. For later we include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kotzinian

A high-statistics measurement of transverse spin effects in dihadron production from muon-proton semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering

A measurement of the azimuthal asymmetry in dihadron production in deep-inelastic scattering of muons on transversely polarised proton (NH$_{3}$) targets are presented. They provide independent access to the transversity distribution…

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The COMPASS Experiment and the measurement of the gluon polarisation

COMPASS, a new fixed target experiment at CERN, aimed at the study of nucleon spin structure and hadron spectroscopy, has started to collect physics data in Autumn 2001. This paper describes the COMPASS apparatus and the measurement of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Tessarotto