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We explore the potential of jet observables in charged-current deep-inelastic scattering (CC DIS) events at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Tagging jets with a recoiling neutrino, which can be identified by the event's missing…

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Exclusive production of a $\chi_{c1}$ axial vector quarkonia in photon-proton scattering at high energies requires a $C$-odd $t$-channel exchange. In the limit of vanishing momentum transfer this occurs either via the exchange of a photon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Sanjin Benic , Adrian Dumitru , Leszek Motyka , Tomasz Stebel

Measurement of the transverse spin dependence of the di-jet opening angle in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=200 GeV has been performed by the STAR collaboration. An analyzing power consistent with zero has been observed over a broad range in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Balewski

A recent global QCD analysis of jet production and other polarized scattering data has found the presence of negative solutions for the gluon helicity distribution in the proton, $\Delta g$, along with the traditional $\Delta g > 0$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 R. M. Whitehill , Yiyu Zhou , N. Sato , W. Melnitchouk

We provide a comprehensive overview of transversely polarized $\Lambda$ production at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). In particular, we study both spontaneous transverse $\Lambda$ polarization as well as the transverse spin transfer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-07 Zhong-Bo Kang , John Terry , Anselm Vossen , Qinghua Xu , Jinlong Zhang

Generalized distribution amplitudes (GDAs) offer valuable insights into the three-dimensional structure of hadrons, delineating the amplitudes associated with the transition from a quark-antiquark pair to a hadron pair. Currently, hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-03 Bing'ang Guo , Jing Han , Ya-Ping Xie , Xurong Chen

We study the process dependence of the Sivers function by considering the impact of color-gauge invariant initial and final state interactions on transverse spin asymmetries in proton-proton reactions within the framework of the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-27 Umberto D'Alesio , Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Francesco Murgia , Cristian Pisano

We present a detailed assessment of how well a future Electron-Ion Collider could constrain helicity parton distributions in the nucleon and, therefore, unveil the role of the intrinsic spin of quarks and gluons in the proton's spin budget.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Elke C. Aschenauer , R. Sassot , M. Stratmann

We propose the jet charge observable as a novel probe of flavor structure in the nucleon spin program at the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). We show that jet charge measurements can substantially enhance the sensitivity of spin asymmetries to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Zhong-Bo Kang , Xiaohui Liu , Sonny Mantry , Ding Yu Shao

In our previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 182002 (2022)], we introduced a pioneering observable aimed at experimentally detecting the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of gluons. Our focus was on the longitudinal double spin asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-08 Shohini Bhattacharya , Renaud Boussarie , Yoshitaka Hatta

We consider transverse momentum dependent gluon distributions inside both unpolarized and transversely polarized protons and show how they can be probed by looking at azimuthal modulations in $e \, p \to e \, J/\psi \, \mathrm{jet} \, X$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-10 Umberto D'Alesio , Francesco Murgia , Cristian Pisano , Pieter Taels

We apply the transverse momentum dependent factorization formalism to investigate the transverse single spin dependent Collins asymmetry with a $\sin(\phi_h+\phi_s)$ modulation in the semi-inclusive production of Kaon meson in deep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Shi-Chen Xue , Xiaoyu Wang , De-Min Li , Zhun Lu

We propose a novel way of studying the gluon number density (the so-called Weizs\"acker-Williams gluon distribution) using the planned Electron Ion Collider. Namely, with the help of the azimuthal correlations between the total transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Andreas van Hameren , Piotr Kotko , Krzysztof Kutak , Sebastian Sapeta , Elżbieta Żarów

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with center-of-mass energies sqrt(s_{eN}) ~ 20-100 GeV and luminosity L ~ 10^{34} cm^{-2} s^{-1} would offer new opportunities to study heavy quark production in high-energy electron or photon scattering on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-04 E. Chudakov , D. Higinbotham , Ch. Hyde , S. Furletov , Yu. Furletova , D. Nguyen , M. Stratmann , M. Strikman , C. Weiss

The Sivers function is extracted from HERMES data on single spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering. Our analysis use a simple Gaussian model for the distribution of transverse parton momenta, together with the flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Collins , A. V. Efremov , K. Goeke , S. Menzel , A. Metz , P. Schweitzer

In this letter we study the impact of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) on the phenomenological extraction of the tensor charge from a QCD global analysis of single transverse-spin asymmetries (SSAs). We generate EIC pseudo-data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Leonard Gamberg , Zhong-Bo Kang , Daniel Pitonyak , Alexei Prokudin , Nobuo Sato , Ralf Seidl

Parton distribution functions, which represent the flavor and spin structure of the nucleon, provide invaluable information in illuminating quantum chromodynamics in the confinement region. Among various processes that measure such parton…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-07-20 Xin Qian

We propose a novel method to experimentally access the gravitational form factors (GFFs) of the charged pion $\pi^+$ through the Sullivan process in electron-proton scattering. We demonstrate that the cross sections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-16 Yoshitaka Hatta , Jakob Schoenleber

One of the more promising observables to probe the high energy regime of the QCD dynamics in the future Electron-Ion Colliders (EIC) is the exclusive vector meson production cross section in coherent and incoherent interactions. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 M. Krelina , V. P. Goncalves , J. Cepila

The Weizsaecker-Williams transverse momentum dependent (TMD) gluon distributions can be probed in the production of a hard dijet in semi-inclusive DIS. This process is sensitive not only to the conventional but also to the linearly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-26 Vladimir Skokov