Single spin asymmetry in $\pi p$ Drell-Yan process
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-02-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We study the single spin asymmetries for the process. We consider the asymmetries contributed by the coupling of the Boer-Mulders function with the transversity distribution and the pretzelosity distribution, characterized by the and azimuthal angular dependence, respectively. We estimate the magnitude of these asymmetries at COMPASS by using proper weighting functions. We find that the asymmetry is of the size of a few percent and can be measured through the experiment. The asymmetry is smaller than the asymmetry. After a cut on , we succeed in enhancing the asymmetry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1101.2702,
title = {Single spin asymmetry in $\pi p$ Drell-Yan process},
author = {Zhun Lu and Bo-Qiang Ma and Jun She},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2702},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures, final version to appear in PLB