Related papers: Diffractive Contribution to $A_\perp$ asymmetry
We calculate the cross section and the $A_{ll}$ asymmetry of the diffractive vector meson leptoproduction for a simple model of the pomeron coupling with the proton. It is found that the sensitivity of the spin--dependent cross section of…
It is shown that single and double spin asymmetries in polarized diffractive $Q \bar Q$ production depend strongly on the spin structure of the quark-pomeron vertex. They can be studied in future spin experiments at HERA.
We study the contribution of diffractive $Q \bar Q$ production to the $F_2^D$ proton structure function and the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry in polarized deep--inelastic $lp$ scattering. We show the strong dependence of the $F_2^D$…
The longitudinally polarized gluon density is probed sensitively in hard collisions of polarized protons under the condition that the dominant dynamics are perturbative and of leading twist origin. First data have recently been presented by…
We give a general formula for the cross section for diffractive vector meson electroproduction, gamma^* p -> Vp. We first calculate diffractive qqbar production, and then use parton-hadron duality by projecting out the J^P = 1^- state in…
Estimates are given for the double spin asymmetry in lepton-pair production from collisions of transversely polarized protons and antiprotons for the kinematics of the recently proposed PAX experiment at GSI on the basis of predictions for…
We demonstrate that the distinctive features of the forward differential cross section of diffractive leptoproduction of a vector meson can be legitimately calculated in perturbative QCD in terms of the light-cone $q \bar q$ wave function…
The analysis of some effects caused by the spin--dependent pomeron couplings is presented. It is shown that the structure of pomeron--proton and quark--pomeron couplings can be tested in future polarized experiments on elastic $pp$…
It is shown that the transverse single spin asymmetry in polarized diffractive $Q \bar Q$ production depends strongly on the spin structure of the pomeron coupling. It is concluded that the spin properties of quark-pomeron and…
The azimuthal spin asymmetries for pion production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of unpolarized charged lepton beams on longitudinally polarized nucleon targets, are reanalyzed by taking into account an important sign…
We consider the double-spin cos(phi) asymmetry for pion electroproduction in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of longitudinally polarized leptons off longitudinally polarized protons. We estimate the size of the asymmetry in the…
A comprehensive set of azimuthal single-spin and double-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive leptoproduction of pions, charged kaons, protons, and antiprotons from transversely polarized protons is presented. These asymmetries include the…
The double longitudinal-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, of the $J/\psi$ production in polarized proton-proton collisions is presented in this paper at QCD next-to-leading order. It is found that the obtained values of $A_{LL}$ are in general…
The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, for neutral pions produced at forward directions in polarized proton-proton collisions, at a center-of-mass energy of $510$ GeV. Results are…
We study the twist-2 double-spin asymmetries for the 2-jets and large-$p_T$ hadron ($\pi$, $\Lambda$ etc) production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering to $O(\alpha_s)$ in perturbative QCD. After deriving the complete set of the…
A longitudinal double spin asymmetry for \pi^0 production has been measured by the PHENIX collaboration. The asymmetry is sensitive to the polarized gluon distribution and is indicated to be positive by theoretical predictions. We study a…
In recent papers [1,2], two new ways have been proposed to probe the linear polarization of gluons in unpolarized proton: using the azimuthal asymmetries and Callan-Gross ratio in heavy-quark pair leptoproduction, $lN\rightarrow…
We measured the longitudinal double spin asymmetries $A_{LL}$ for single hadron muo-production off protons and deuterons at photon virtuality $Q^2$ < 1(GeV/$\it c$)$^2$ for transverse hadron momenta $p_T$ in the range 0.7 GeV/$\it c$ to 4…
Evidence for a positive longitudinal double-spin asymmetry <A_1^rho> = 0.24 +-0.11 (stat) +-0.02 (syst) in the cross section for exclusive diffractive rho^0(770) vector meson production in polarised lepton-proton scattering was observed by…
We discuss transverse spin effects caused by the spin-flip part of the Pomeron coupling with the proton. The predicted spin asymmetries in proton-proton scattering and QQ production in proton-proton and lepton-proton reactions are not small…