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Accessing quark helicity in $e^+e^-$ and SIDIS via dihadron correlations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The correlation between the longitudinal polarization of a fragmenting quark and the transverse momenta of the produced hadrons was predicted over two decades ago. Nevertheless, experimental searches in the electron-positron annihilation process, both through the so-called jet handedness measurements by the {\tt SLD} Collaboration and more recently via the measurements of the azimuthal asymmetry containing the helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation function (DiFF) by the BELLE\textrm{BELLE} Collaboration, did not yield a signal. We will first discuss our recent explanation of the zero result at BELLE\textrm{BELLE}, and the two new methods for accessing the helicity-dependent DiFFs both in the electron-positron annihilation experiments, and in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) experiments with a longitudinally polarized target. We will also for the first time describe yet another, new method for accessing the helicity-dependent DiFFs in SIDIS using polarized beam asymmetry. Finally, we will present a new Monte Carlo calculation of the specific Fourier moments of the helicity-dependent DiFF entering in to the new asymmetries, performed within the extended quark-jet model, and compare the results to those for the interference DiFF.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11485,
  title  = {Accessing quark helicity in $e^+e^-$ and SIDIS via dihadron correlations},
  author = {Hrayr H. Matevosyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11485},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure. To appear in PoS DIS2018

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