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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 πpμ+μX\pi p^\uparrow\rightarrow\mu^+\mu^-X 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 sin(ϕ+ϕS)\sin(\phi+\phi_S) and sin(3ϕϕS)\sin(3\phi-\phi_S) azimuthal angular dependence, respectively. We estimate the magnitude of these asymmetries at COMPASS by using proper weighting functions. We find that the sin(ϕ+ϕS)\sin(\phi+\phi_S) asymmetry is of the size of a few percent and can be measured through the experiment. The sin(3ϕϕS)\sin(3\phi-\phi_S) asymmetry is smaller than the sin(ϕ+ϕS)\sin(\phi+\phi_S) asymmetry. After a cut on qTq_T, we succeed in enhancing the asymmetry.

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@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

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