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Experimental investigation of transverse spin asymmetries in muon-p SIDIS processes: Sivers asymmetries

The COMPASS Collaboration at CERN has measured the transverse spin azimuthal asymmetry of charged hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering using a 160 GeV positive muon beam and a transversely polarised NH_3 target. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Adolph , M. G. Alekseev , V. Yu. Alexakhin , Yu. Alexandrov , G. D. Alexeev , A. Amoroso , A. A. Antonov , A. Austregesilo , B. Badelek , F. Balestra , J. Barth , G. Baum , Y. Bedfer , J. Bernhard , R. Bertini , M. Bettinelli , K. Bicker , J. Bieling , R. Birsa , J. Bisplinghoff , P. Bordalo , F. Bradamante , C. Braun , A. Bravar , A. Bressan , E. Burtin , L. Capozza , M. Chiosso , S. U. Chung , A. Cicuttin , M. L. Crespo , S. Dalla Torre , S. Das , S. S. Dasgupta , S. Dasgupta , O. Yu. Denisov , L. Dhara , S. V. Donskov , N. Doshita , V. Duic , W. Duennweber , M. Dziewiecki , A. Efremov , C. Elia , P. D. Eversheim , W. Eyrich , M. Faessler , A. Ferrero , A. Filin , M. Finger , M. Finger , H. Fischer , C. Franco , N. du Fresne von Hohenesche , J. M. Friedrich , V. Frolov , R. Garfagnini , F. Gautheron , O. P. Gavrichtchouk , S. Gerassimov , R. Geyer , M. Giorgi , I. Gnesi , B. Gobbo , S. Goertz , S. Grabmueller , A. Grasso , B. Grube , R. Gushterski , A. Guskov , T. Guthoerl , F. Haas , D. von Harrach , F. H. Heinsius , F. Herrmann , C. Hess , F. Hinterberger , N. Horikawa , Ch. Hoeppner , N. d'Hose , S. Ishimoto , O. Ivanov , Yu. Ivanshin , T. Iwata , R. Jahn , V. Jary , P. Jasinski , R. Joosten , E. Kabuss , D. Kang , B. Ketzer , G. V. Khaustov , Yu. A. Khokhlov , Yu. Kisselev , F. Klein , K. Klimaszewski , S. Koblitz , J. H. Koivuniemi , V. N. Kolosov , K. Kondo , K. Koenigsmann , I. Konorov , V. F. Konstantinov , A. Korzenev , A. M. Kotzinian , O. Kouznetsov , M. Kraemer , Z. V. Kroumchtein , F. Kunne , K. Kurek , L. Lauser , A. A. Lednev , A. Lehmann , S. Levorato , J. Lichtenstadt , T. Liska , A. Maggiora , A. Magnon , N. Makke , G. K. Mallot , A. Mann , C. Marchand , A. Martin , J. Marzec , T. Matsuda , G. Meshcheryakov , W. Meyer , T. Michigami , Yu. V. Mikhailov , M. A. Moinester , A. Morreale , A. Mutter , A. Nagaytsev , T. Nagel , T. Negrini , F. Nerling , S. Neubert , D. Neyret , V. I. Nikolaenko , W. D. Nowak , A. S. Nunes , A. G. Olshevsky , M. Ostrick , A. Padee , R. Panknin , D. Panzieri , B. Parsamyan , S. Paul , E. Perevalova , G. Pesaro , D. V. Peshekhonov , G. Piragino , S. Platchkov , J. Pochodzalla , J. Polak , V. A. Polyakov , J. Pretz , M. Quaresma , C. Quintans , J. -F. Rajotte , S. Ramos , V. Rapatsky , G. Reicherz , A. Richter , E. Rocco , E. Rondio , N. S. Rossiyskaya , D. I. Ryabchikov , V. D. Samoylenko , A. Sandacz , M. G. Sapozhnikov , S. Sarkar , I. A. Savin , G. Sbrizzai , P. Schiavon , C. Schill , T. Schlueter , K. Schmidt , L. Schmitt , K. Schoenning , S. Schopferer , M. Schott , W. Schroeder , O. Yu. Shevchenko , L. Silva , L. Sinha , A. N. Sissakian , M. Slunecka , G. I. Smirnov , S. Sosio , F. Sozzi , A. Srnka , L. Steiger , M. Stolarski , M. Sulc , R. Sulej , H. Suzuki , P. Sznajder , S. Takekawa , J. Ter Wolbeek , S. Tessaro , F. Tessarotto , L. G. Tkatchev , S. Uhl , I. Uman , M. Vandenbroucke , M. Virius , N. V. Vlassov , L. Wang , M. Wilfert , R. Windmolders , W. Wislicki , H. Wollny , K. Zaremba , M. Zavertyaev , E. Zemlyanichkina , M. Ziembicki , N. Zhuravlev , A. Zvyagin

Single spin asymmetries in l p --> h X processes: a test of factorization

Predictions for the transverse single spin asymmetry (SSA), A_N, are given for the inclusive processes l p(transv. pol.) --> h X and l p(transv. pol.) --> jet + X, which could be measured in operating or future experiments. These estimates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , U. D'Alesio , S. Melis , F. Murgia , A. Prokudin

Colour Modification of Effective T-odd Distributions

We show that soft-gluon twist-3 contributions to single-spin asymmetries (SSA) in hard processes may be expressed in the form of effective T-odd Sivers distributions, whose signs and scales are modified by process-dependent colour factors.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-10 Philip G. Ratcliffe , Oleg V. Teryaev

Transverse spin effects in hadron-pair production from semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

First measurements of azimuthal asymmetries in hadron-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering of muons on transversely polarised ^6LiD (deuteron) and NH_3 (proton) targets are presented. The data were taken in the years 2002-2004 and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-06-04 C. Adolph , M. G. Alekseev , V. Yu. Alexakhin , Yu. Alexandrov , G. D. Alexeev , A. Amoroso , A. A. Antonov , A. Austregesilo , B. Badellek , F. Balestra , J. Barth , G. Baum , Y. Bedfer , J. Bernhard , R. Bertini , M. Bettinelli , K. Bicker , J. Bieling , R. Birsa , J. Bisplinghoff , P. Bordalo , F. Bradamante , C. Braun , A. Bravar , A. Bressan , E. Burtin , D. Chaberny , M. Chiosso , S. U. Chung , A. Cicuttin , M. L. Crespo , S. Dalla Torre , S. Das , S. S. Dasgupta , O. Yu. Denisov , L. Dhara , S. V. Donskov , N. Doshita , V. Duic , W. Duennweber , M. Dziewiecki , A. Efremov , C. Elia , P. D. Eversheim , W. Eyrich , M. Faessler , A. Ferrero , A. Filin , M. Finger , M. Finger , H. Fischer , C. Franco , N. du Fresne von Hohenesche , J. M. Friedrich , R. Garfagnini , F. Gautheron , O. P. Gavrichtchouk , R. Gazda , S. Gerassimov , R. Geyer , M. Giorgi , I. Gnesi , B. Gobbo , S. Goertz , S. Grabmueller , A. Grasso , B. Grube , R. Gushterski , A. Guskov , T. Guthoerl , F. Haas , D. von Harrach , F. H. Heinsius , F. Herrmann , C. Hess , F. Hinterberger , N. Horikawa , Ch. Hoeppner , N. d'Hose , S. Huber , S. Ishimoto , O. Ivanov , Yu. Ivanshin , T. Iwata , R. Jahn , P. Jasinski , R. Joosten , E. Kabuss , D. Kang , B. Ketzer , G. V. Khaustov , Yu. A. Khokhlov , Yu. Kisselev , F. Klein , K. Klimaszewski , S. Koblitz , J. H. Koivuniemi , V. N. Kolosov , K. Kondo , K. Koenigsmann , I. Konorov , V. F. Konstantinov , A. Korzenev , A. M. Kotzinian , O. Kouznetsov , M. Kraemer , Z. V. Kroumchtein , F. Kunne , K. Kurek , L. Lauser , A. A. Lednev , A. Lehmann , S. Levorato , J. Lichtenstadt , A. Maggiora , A. Magnon , N. Makke , G. K. Mallot , A. Mann , C. Marchand , A. Martin , J. Marzec , F. Massmann , T. Matsuda , W. Meyer , T. Michigami , A. Mielech , Yu. V. Mikhailov , M. A. Moinester , A. Morreale , A. Mutter , A. Nagaytsev , T. Nagel , T. Negrini , F. Nerling , S. Neubert , D. Neyret , V. I. Nikolaenko , W. D. Nowak , A. S. Nunes , A. G. Olshevsky , M. Ostrick , A. Padee , R. Panknin , D. Panzieri , B. Parsamyan , S. Paul , E. Perevalova , G. Pesaro , D. V. Peshekhonov , G. Piragino , S. Platchkov , J. Pochodzalla , J. Polak , V. A. Polyakov , G. Pontecorvo , J. Pretz , M. Quaresma , C. Quintans , J. -F. Rajotte , S. Ramos , V. Rapatsky , G. Reicherz , A. Richter , E. Rocco , E. Rondio , N. S. Rossiyskaya , D. I. Ryabchikov , V. D. Samoylenko , A. Sandacz , M. G. Sapozhnikov , S. Sarkar , I. A. Savin , G. Sbrizzai , P. Schiavon , C. Schill , T. Schlueter , K. Schmidt , L. Schmitt , K. Schoenning , S. Schopferer , M. Schott , O. Yu. Shevchenko , L. Silva , L. Sinha , A. N. Sissakian , M. Slunecka , G. I. Smirnov , S. Sosio , F. Sozzi , A. Srnka , M. Stolarski , M. Sulc , R. Sulej , P. Sznajder , S. Takekawa , J. Ter Wolbeek , S. Tessaro , F. Tessarotto , L. G. Tkatchev , S. Uhl , I. Uman , M. Vandenbroucke , M. Virius , N. V. Vlassov , A. Vossen , L. Wang , R. Windmolders , W. Wislicki , H. Wollny , K. Zaremba , M. Zavertyaev , E. Zemlyanichkina , M. Ziembicki , N. Zhuravlevd , A. Zvyagin

Reweighting the Sivers function with jet data from STAR

The reweighting procedure that using Bayesian statistics incorporates the information contained in a new data set, without the need of re-fitting, is applied to the quark Sivers function extracted from Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-17 Mariaelena Boglione , Umberto D'Alesio , Carlo Flore , Josè Osvaldo Gonzalez-Hernandez , Francesco Murgia , Alexei Prokudin

Dihadron fragmentation functions and their relevance for transverse spin studies

Dihadron fragmentation functions describe the probability that a quark fragments into two hadrons plus other undetected hadrons. In particular, the so-called interference fragmentation functions describe the azimuthal asymmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-08 A. Courtoy , A. Bacchetta , M. Radici

Collins and Sivers transverse-spin asymmetries in inclusive muoproduction of $\rho^0$ mesons

The production of vector mesons in deep inelastic scattering is an interesting yet scarsely explored channel to study the transverse spin structure of the nucleon and the related phenomena. The COMPASS collaboration has performed the first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-09 G. D. Alexeev , M. G. Alexeev , C. Alice , A. Amoroso , V. Andrieux , V. Anosov , K. Augsten , W. Augustyniak , C. D. R. Azevedo , B. Badelek , J. Barth , R. Beck , Y. Bedfer , J. Bernhard , M. Bodlak , F. Bradamante , A. Bressan , V. E. Burtsev , W. -C. Chang , C. Chatterjee , M. Chiosso , A. G. Chumakov , S. -U. Chung , A. Cicuttin , P. M. M. Correia , M. L. Crespo , D. D'Ago , S. Dalla Torre , S. S. Dasgupta , S. Dasgupta , F. Del Carro , I. Denisenko , O. Yu. Denisov , S. V. Donskov , N. Doshita , Ch. Dreisbach , W. Dünnweber , R. R. Dusaev , D. Ecker , A. Efremov , C. Elia , D. Eremeev , P. Faccioli , M. Faessler , M. Finger , M. Finger , H. Fischer , K. J. Flöthner , W. Florian , J. M. Friedrich , V. Frolov , L. G. Garcia Ordòñez , F. Gautheron , O. P. Gavrichtchouk , S. Gerassimov , J. Giarra , D. Giordano , M. Gorzellik , A. Grasso , A. Gridin , M. Grosse Perdekamp , B. Grube , M. Grüner , A. Guskov , D. von Harrach , M. Hoffmann , N. Horikawa , N. d'Hose , C. -Y. Hsieh , S. Huber , S. Ishimoto , A. Ivanov , T. Iwata , M. Jandek , V. Jary , R. Joosten , E. Kabuß , F. Kaspar , A. Kerbizi , B. Ketzer , A. Khatun , G. V. Khaustov , F. Klein , J. H. Koivuniemi , V. N. Kolosov , K. Kondo Horikawa , I. Konorov , V. F. Konstantinov , A. M. Korzenev , A. M. Kotzinian , O. M. Kouznetsov , A. Koval , Z. Kral , F. Krinner , F. Kunne , K. Kurek , R. P. Kurjata , A. Kveton , K. Lavickova , S. Levorato , Y. -S. Lian , J. Lichtenstadt , P. -J. Lin , R. Longo , V. E. Lyubovitskij , A. Maggiora , A. Magnon , N. Makins , N. Makke , G. K. Mallot , A. Maltsev , S. A. Mamon , A. Martin , J. Marzec , J. Matoušek , T. Matsuda , G. Mattson , C. Menezes Pires , F. Metzger , M. Meyer , W. Meyer , Yu. V. Mikhailov , M. Mikhasenko , E. Mitrofanov , D. Miura , Y. Miyachi , R. Molina , A. Moretti , A. Nagaytsev , C. Naim , D. Neyret , J. Nový , W. -D. Nowak , G. Nukazuka , A. G. Olshevsky , M. Ostrick , D. Panzieri , B. Parsamyan , S. Paul , H. Pekeler , J. -C. Peng , M. Pešek , D. V. Peshekhonov , M. Pešková , S. Platchkov , J. Pochodzalla , V. A. Polyakov , M. Quaresma , C. Quintans , G. Reicherz , C. Riedl , T. Rudnicki , D. I. Ryabchikov , A. Rychter , A. Rymbekova , V. D. Samoylenko , A. Sandacz , S. Sarkar , I. A. Savin , G. Sbrizzai , H. Schmieden , A. Selyunin , K. Sharko , L. Sinha , M. Slunecka , F. Sozzi , D. Spülbeck , A. Srnka , M. Stolarski , O. Subrt , M. Sulc , H. Suzuki , S. Tessaro , F. Tessarotto , A. Thiel , J. Tomsa , F. Tosello , A. Townsend , T. Triloki , V. Tskhay , B. Valinoti , B. M. Veit , J. F. C. A. Veloso , B. Ventura , M. Virius , M. Wagner , S. Wallner , K. Zaremba , M. Zavertyaev , M. Zemko , E. Zemlyanichkina , M. Ziembicki

Polarised Quark Distributions in the Nucleon from Semi-Inclusive Spin Asymmetries

We present a measurement of semi-inclusive spin asymmetries for positively and negatively charged hadrons from deep inelastic scattering of polarised muons on polarised protons and deuterons in the range $0.003<x<0.7$ and $Q^2>$1 GeV$^2$.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 Spin Muon Collaboration

Spin dependent fragmentation function at Belle

The measurement of the so far unknown chiral-odd quark transverse spin distribution in either semi-inclusive DIS (SIDIS) or inclusive measurements in pp collisions at RHIC has an additional chiral-odd fragmentation function appearing in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Ogawa , M. Grosse-Perdekamp , R. Seidl , K. Hasuko

Simplified approach to extracting nucleon transversity in collinear factorization using near-side energy-energy correlators

We develop a novel strategy for accessing the transversity parton distribution function (PDF) of the nucleon within collinear factorization using near-side energy-energy correlators in the dihadron fragmentation framework. We show how this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Zhong-Bo Kang , Andreas Metz , Daniel Pitonyak , Congyue Zhang

Sivers effect in semi-inclusive DIS and in the Drell-Yan process

The Sivers parton distribution has been predicted to obey a particular ``universality relation'', namely to have opposite sign in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and the Drell-Yan process. We discuss how, on the basis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Efremov , K. Goeke , S. Menzel , A. Metz , P. Schweitzer

Studying transverse momentum distributions with jets at N$^3$LL

Semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) is a promising channel for the extraction of transverse momentum dependent distributions at future colliders. In this context, we recently developed a framework that uses jets (instead of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lorenzo Zoppi

Single spin asymmetries in ultra-peripheral $p^\uparrow A$ collisions

We suggest inclusive hadron production in ultra-peripheral proton-nucleus collisions (UPCs) $p^\uparrow A \to h AX$ as a new channel to investigate single spin asymmetries (SSAs), in particular, to test the assumed dominance of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Sanjin Benić , Yoshitaka Hatta

A strategy towards the extraction of the Sivers function with TMD evolution

The QCD evolution of the unpolarized Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) distribution functions and of the Sivers functions have been discussed in recent papers. Following such results we reconsider previous extractions of the Sivers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Anselmino , M. Boglione , S. Melis

Two-Dimensional Transverse-Momentum Subtraction and Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering at N$^3$LO in QCD

Identified hadron production is essential for the study of nucleon structure and QCD hadronization at high energies. We present the first calculation of unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Liang Dong , Shen Fang , Jun Gao , Hai Tao Li , Ding Yu Shao , Hua Xing Zhu , Yu Jiao Zhu

Chiral-odd distribution functions in the chiral quark soliton model

The recent measurements of azimuthal single spin asymmetries by the HERMES collaboration has opened up new possibility to measure chiral-odd distribution functions through semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scatterings. Here, predictions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Wakamatsu

Exploring the Quark Transversity and the Collins Fragmentation Functions using Polarized $pp$ Collisions at STAR

Understanding the internal spin structure of the nucleon still remains a challenge in strong interaction physics. Transversity, which describes the transverse spin structure of quarks in a transversely polarized proton, is poorly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-18 Ting Lin

Single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized hydrogen target

Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with transverse target polarization. The asymmetry depends on the azimuthal angles of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The HERMES Collaboration

Transversity measurements at HERMES

Azimuthal single-spin asymmetries (SSA) in semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) of positrons on a transversely polarised hydrogen target are presented. Azimuthal moments for both the Collins…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Markus Diefenthaler

Accessing transversity with interference fragmentation functions

We discuss in detail the option to access the transversity distribution function $h_1(x)$ by utilizing the analyzing power of interference fragmentation functions in two-pion production inside the same current jet. The transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Radici , R. Jakob , A. Bianconi