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Transversity and intrinsic motion of the constituents

The probabilistic model of parton distributions, previously developed by one of the authors, is generalized to include the transversity distribution. When interference effects are attributed to quark level only, the intrinsic quark motion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Efremov , O. V. Teryaev , Petr Zavada

Transversity quark distributions in a covariant quark-diquark model

Transversity quark light-cone momentum distributions are calculated for the nucleon. We utilize a modified Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model in which confinement is simulated by eliminating unphysical thresholds for nucleon decay into quarks. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. C. Cloët , W. Bentz , A. W. Thomas

Dihadron Transverse-Spin Asymmetries in Muon-Deuteron Deep-Inelastic Scattering

In 2022, the COMPASS collaboration performed semi-inclusive measurements of deep-inelastic muon-scattering on a transversely polarised deuteron (6LiD) target. From these data, transverse-spin-dependent dihadron asymmetries are extracted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-30 G. D. Alexeev , M. G. Alexeev , C. Alice , A. Amoroso , V. Andrieux , V. Anosov , S. Asatryan , K. Augsten , W. Augustyniak , C. D. R. Azevedo , B. Badelek , R. Beck , J. Beckers , Y. Bedfer , V. Benesova , J. Bernhard , F. Bradamante , A. Bressan , W. -C . Chang , C. Chatterjee , M. Chiosso , S. -U. Chung , A. Cicuttin , M. L. Crespo , D. D'Ago , S. Dalla Torre , S. S. Dasgupta , S. Dasgupta , M. Dehpour , F. Delcarro , I. Denisenko , O. Yu. Denisov , S. V. Donskov , N. Doshita , Ch. Dreisbach , W. Dün nweber , R. R. Dusaev , D. Ecker , P. Faccioli , M. Faessler , M. Finger , M. Finger , H. Fischer , K. J. Flöthner , W. Florian , J. M. Friedrich , V. Frolov , L. G. Garcia Ordòñez , O. P. Gavrichtchouk , S. Gerassimov , J. Giarra , D. Giordan o , A. Grasso , A. Gridin , M. Grosse Perdekamp , B. Grube , M. Grüner , A. Guskov , P. Haas , D. von Harrach , M. Hoffmann , A. Hoghmrtsyan , N. d'Hose , C. -Y. Hsieh , S. Ishimoto , A. Ivanov , T. Iwata , V. Jary , E. Jelinkova , R. Joosten , E. Kabuß , F. Kaspar , A. Kerbizi , B. Ketzer , G. V. Khaustov , T. Klasek , J. H. Koivuniemi , V. N. Kolosov , K. Kondo Horikawa , I. Konorov , A. Yu. Korzenev , A. M. Kotzinian , O. M. Kouznetsov , A. Koval , 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 , N. Makke , G. K. Mallot , A. Maltsev , A. Martin , H. Marukyan , J. Marzec , J. Matoušek , T. Matsuda , C. Menezes Pires , F. Metzge r , W. Meyer , M. Mikhasenko , E. Mitrofanov , D. Miura , Y. Miyachi , R. Molina , A. Movsisian , A. Moretti , A. Nagaytsev , D. Neyret , M. Niemiec , J. Nový , W. -D. Nowak , G. Nukazuka , A. G. Olshevsky , M. Ostrick , D. Panzieri , B. Parsamyan , S. P aul , H. Pekeler , J. -C. Peng , M. Pešek , D. V. Peshekhonov , M. Pešková , S. Platchkov , J. Pochodzalla , V. A. Polyakov , P. Pucci , C. Quintans , G. Reicherz , C. Riedl , D. I. Ryabchikov , A. Rychter , A. Rymbekova , V. D. Samoylenko , A. S andacz , S. Sarkar , I. A. Savin , G. Sbrizzai , H. Schmieden , A. Selyunin , S. Seriubin , L. Sinha , D. Spülbeck , A. Srnka , M. Stolarski , M. Sulc , H. Suzuki , S. Tessaro , F. Tessarotto , A. Thiel , F. Tosello , A. Townsend , V. Tskhay , B. Valino ti , B. M. Veit , J. F. C. A. Veloso , A. Vijayakumar , M. Virius , M. Wagner , S. Wallner , K. Zaremba , M. Zavertyaev , M. Zemko , E. Zemlyanichkina , M. Ziembicki

Proposals for measuring transversity distributions in deep inelastic electron scattering and a model for E-704 asymmetries

We present the principles of the measurement of the quark transversity distributions in semi-inclusive deep inelastic electron scattering, which form the basis of HELP and one of the ELFE proposals. A string model for Collins-type asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Artru

Quark Helicity and Transversity Distributions

The quark transversity distribution inside nucleon is less understood than the quark unpolarized and helicity distributions inside nucleon. In particular, it is important to know clearly why the quark helicity and transversity distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 Dae Sung Hwang

Nucleon Transversity Distribution from Azimuthal Spin Asymmetry in Pion Electroproduction

The azimuthal asymmetry observed by the HERMES collaboration in semi-inclusive pion production in deep inelastic scattering of unpolarized positron on the longitudinally polarized proton target, can provide information of the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Bo-Qiang Ma , Ivan Schmidt , Jian-Jun Yang

Accessing transversity via J/Psi production in polarized p-pbar interactions

We discuss the possibility of a direct access to transversity distributions by measuring the double transverse spin asymmetry A_TT in p pbar --> J/Psi + X --> l^- l^+ + X processes at future GSI-HESR experiments with polarized protons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Anselmino , V. Barone , A. Drago , N. N. Nikolaev

The Quark Spin Distributions of the Nucleon

The quark helicity measured in polarized deep inelastic scattering is different from the quark spin in the rest frame of the nucleon. We point out that the quark spin distributions $\Delta q_{RF}(x)$ are connected with the quark helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Bo-Qiang Ma , Ivan Schmidt , Jacques Soffer

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-16 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , N. N. Ajitanand , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , R. Aoyama , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , J. Bryslawskyj , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , X. Chen , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , J. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , P. Federicova , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , J. Fujita , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , A. Hirsch , S. Horvat , X. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. Huang , B. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , M. Kocmanek , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , L. Krauth , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , W. Li , C. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , P. Liu , Y. Liu , H. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , S. Luo , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , D. Mayes , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , Z. W. Miller , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , S. Mizuno , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , M. J. Rehbein , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. D. Roth , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , M. Saur , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Z. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , X. Sun , Y. Sun , X. M. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. Thäder , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , B. Tu , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , Q. H. Xu , Y. F. Xu , J. Xu , N. Xu , Z. Xu , C. Yang , S. Yang , Q. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. B. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , L. Zhang , J. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Z. Zhang , S. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , C. Zhou , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Z. Zhu , M. Zyzak

Measuring transverse shape with virtual photons

A two-dimensional Fourier transform of hadron form factors allows to determine their charge density in transverse space. We show that this method can be applied to any virtual photon induced transition, such as \gamma *(q)+N -> \pi N. Only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-13 Paul Hoyer , Samu Kurki

Probes of parton transversity

An inventory is made of the experiments which can measure the transversely polarized quark distributions and fragmentation functions at leading twist. (Contribution to the 10th International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, Nagoya,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 X. Artru

Measuring transversity with T-odd single particle production

The transversity distribution can be measured at leading-twist in single-particle inclusive DIS, where it appears in connection with chiral-odd fragmentation functions. Among these functions, we focus on the time-reversal odd ones. They…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Bacchetta

Probing transversity by measuring $\Lambda$ polarisation in SIDIS

Based on the observation of sizeable target-transverse-spin asymmetries in single-hadron and hadron-pair production in Semi-Inclusive measurements of Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS), the chiral-odd transversity quark distribution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-15 M. G. Alexeev , G. D. Alexeev , A. Amoroso , V. Andrieux , V. Anosov , K. Augsten , W. Augustyniak , C. D. R. Azevedo , B. Badelek , F. Balestra , M. Ball , J. Barth , R. Beck , Y. Bedfer , J. Berenguer Antequera , 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 , I. Denisenko , O. Yu. Denisov , S. V. Donskov , N. Doshita , Ch. Dreisbach , W. Duennweber , R. R. Dusaev , A. Efremov , P. D. Eversheim , P. Faccioli , M. Faessler , A. Ferrero , M. Finger , M. Finger , H. Fischer , C. Franco , J. M. Friedrich , V. Frolov , L. G. Garcia Ordonez , F. Gautheron , O. P. Gavrichtchouk , S. Gerassimov , J. Giarra , I. Gnesi , D. Giordano , M. Gorzellik , A. Grasso , A. Gridin , M. Grosse Perdekamp , B. Grube , A. Guskov , D. von Harrach , R. Heitz , N. Horikawa , N. d'Hose , C. -Y. Hsieh , S. Huber , S. Ishimoto , A. Ivanov , T. Iwata , M. Jandek , T. Jary , R. Joosten , E. Kabuss , D. H. Kang , F. Kaspar , A. Kerbizi , B. Ketzer , G. V. Khaustov , Yu. A. Khokhlov , Yu. Kisselev , F. Klein , J. H. Koivuniemi , V. N. Kolosov , I. Konorov , V. F. Konstantinov , A. M. Kotzinian , O. M. Kouznetsov , A. Koval , Z. Kral , F. Krinner , Y. Kulinich , 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 , B. Marianski , A. Martin , J. Marzec , J. Matousek , T. Matsuda , G. Mattson , G. V. Meshcheryakov , M. Meyer , W. Meyer , Yu. V. Mikhailov , M. Mikhasenko , E. Mitrofanov , Y. Miyachi , A. Moretti , A. Nagaytsev , C. Naim , T. S. Negrini , D. Neyret , J. Novy , W. -D. Nowak , G. Nukazuka , A. S. Nunes , A. G. Olshevskiy , M. Ostrick , D. Panzieri , B. Parsamyan , S. Paul , H. Pekeler , J. -C. Peng , M. Pesek , D. V. Peshekhonov , M. Peskova , N. Pierre , S. Platchkov , J. Pochodzalla , V. A. Polyakov , J. Pretz , M. Quaresma , C. Quintans , G. Reicherz , C. Riedl , T. Rudnicki , D. I. Ryabchikov , A. Rymbekova , A. Rychter , V. D. Samoylenko , A. Sandacz , S. Sarkar , I. A. Savin , G. Sbrizzai , P. Schiavon , H. Schmieden , A. Selyunin , K. Sharko , L. Sinha , M. Slunecka , J. Smolik , F. Sozzi , A. Srnka , D. Steffen , M. Stolarski , O. Subrt , M. Sulc , H. Suzuki , P. Sznajder , S. Tessaro , F. Tessarotto , A. Thiel , J. Tomsa , F. Tosello , A. Townsend , V. Tskhay , S. Uhl , A. Vauth , B. M. Veit , J. Veloso , B. Ventura , A. Vidon , M. Virius , M. Wagner , S. Wallner , K. Zaremba , P. Zavada , M. Zavertyaev , M. Zemko , E. Zemlyanichkina , Y. Zhao , M. Ziembicki

The Theory of the Nucleon Spin

I discuss two topics of current interest in the study of the spin structure of the nucleon. First, I discuss whether there is a sum rule for the components of the nucleon's angular moments. Second, I discuss the measurement of the nucleon's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. L. Jaffe

Transverse Spin and Transverse Momentum Effects at COMPASS

The investigation of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects in deep inelastic scattering is one of the key physics programs of the COMPASS collaboration. In the years 2002-2004 COMPASS took data scattering 160 GeV muons on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Schill

Transverse Spin Structure of the Nucleon

We review the current status and future perspectives of theory and experiments of transverse spin phenomena in high-energy scattering processes off nucleon targets and related issues in nucleon structure and QCD. Systematic exploration of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-26 Matthias Grosse Perdekamp , Feng Yuan

Transversity and Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distribution Measurements from PHENIX and BRAHMS

A variety of measurements performed utilizing transversely polarized proton- proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are now avail- able. Recent results from the PHENIX and BRAHMS experiments are presented and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Aidala

Transverse Spin Effects at COMPASS

Single spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized nucleon targets have been under intense experimental investigation over the past few years. They provide new insights into QCD and the nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-08-24 H. Wollny

Continuous quantum nondemolition measurement of the transverse component of a qubit

Quantum jumps of a qubit are usually observed between its energy eigenstates, also known as its longitudinal pseudo-spin component. Is it possible, instead, to observe quantum jumps between the transverse superpositions of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 U. Vool , S. Shankar , S. O. Mundhada , N. Ofek , A. Narla , K. Sliwa , E. Zalys-Geller , Y. Liu , L. Frunzio , R. J. Schoelkopf , S. M. Girvin , M. H. Devoret

Comparative Analysis of Transversities and Longitudinally Polarized Distributions of the Nucleon

We carry out a comparative analysis of the transversities and the longitudinally polarized parton distribution functions in light of the first empirical extraction of the transversity distributions recently done by Anselmino et al. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-29 M. Wakamatsu