201 research outputs found
QCD Corrections to the nucleon's spin structure function
We investigate the renormalization of the twist-3 operators which are
relevant for the spin-dependent structure function . We derive
the anomalous dimension for the non-singlet part by calculating the off-shell
Green's functions of the twist-3 operators including the operators which are
proportional to the equation of motion.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, 1 Postscript figur
Evolution Kernels of Twist-3 Light-Ray Operators in Polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering
The twist three contributions to the -evolution of the spin-dependent
structure function are considered in the non-local operator product
approach. Starting from the perturbative expansion of the T-product of two
electromagnetic currents, we introduce the nonlocal light-cone expansion proved
by Anikin and Zavialov and determine the physical relevant set of light-ray
operators of twist three. Using the equations of motion we show the equivalence
of these operators to the Shuryak-Vainshtein operators plus the mass operator,
and we determine their evolution kernels using the light-cone gauge with the
Leibbrandt-Mandelstam prescription. The result of Balitsky and Braun for the
twist three evolution kernel (nonsinglet case) is confirmed.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, Talk given at the workshop "QCD and QED in Higher
Order", Rheinsberg, April 21-26, 199
Double Sivers effect asymmetries and their impact on transversity measurements at RHIC
We study double transverse spin asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process at
measured transverse momentum of the lepton pair. Contrary to what a collinear
factorization approach would suggest, a nonzero double transverse spin
asymmetry in the laboratory frame a priori does not imply nonzero transversity.
TMD effects, such as the double Sivers effect, in principle form a background.
Using the current knowledge of the relevant TMDs we estimate their contribution
in the laboratory frame for Drell-Yan and W production at RHIC and point out a
cross check asymmetry measurement to bound the TMD contributions. We also
comment on the transverse momentum integrated asymmetries that only receive
power suppressed background contributions.Comment: 12 pages, 11 eps figures, minor changes, matches the published
versio
Twist-3 polarized structure functions
We review the nucleon's twist-3 polarized structure functions from the
viewpoint of gauge invariant, nonlocal light-cone operators in QCD. We discuss
a systematic treatment of the polarized structure functions and the
corresponding parton distribution functions. We emphasize unique features of
higher twist distributions, and the role of the QCD equations of motion to
derive their anomalous dimensions for Q^2-evolution.Comment: 6 pages LaTeX, talk given at the QCD 99 Euroconference, Montpellier,
July 7-13, 199
Evolution of chiral-odd spin-independent fracture functions in Quantum Cromodynamics
We construct the evolution equations for the twist-3 chiral-odd spin
independent fracture functions in QCD. The Gribov-Lipatov reciprocity relation
is fulfilled at the one-loop level for the quasi-partonic two-particle cut
vertices only. It is found that the rang of the anomalous dimensions matrix is
infinite for any given moment of the three-parton fracture function as
distinguished from the case of DIS-distributions where the rang of the matrix
was finite and increases with the number of the moment. In the multicolour
limit the evolution equation for the quark-gluon-quark
correlation function decouples from another equation in the system and becomes
homogeneous provided we discard the quark mass effects. This fact provides an
opportunity to find its analytic solution explicitly in nonlocal form similarly
to the DIS.Comment: 16 pages, latex, no figure
Decomposition of nonlocal light-cone operators into harmonic operators of definite twist
Bilocal light-ray operators which are Lorentz scalars, vectors or
antisymmetric tensors, and which appear in various hard scattering QCD
processes, are decomposed into operators of definite twist. These operators are
harmonic tensor functions and their Taylor expansion consists of (traceless)
local light-cone operators with span irreducible representations of the Lorentz
group with definite spin j and common geometric twist (= dimension - spin).
Some applications concerning the nonforward matrix elements of these operators
and the generalization fo conformal light-cone operators of definite twist is
considered. The group theoretical background of the method has been made clear.Comment: 38 pages, AMSTEX Improvement of expressions for twist-3 and twist-4
tensor operators. to appear in Nucl. Phys.
Scale dependence of the chiral-odd twist-3 distributions and
We evaluate the complete leading-order evolution kernels for the chiral-odd
twist-3 distributions and of the nucleon. We
establish the connection between the evolution equations in light-cone position
and light-cone fraction representations, which makes a correspondence between
the non-local string operator product expansion and the QCD-inspired parton
model. The compact expression obtained for the local anomalous dimension matrix
coincides with previous calculations. In the multicolour QCD as well as in the
large- limit the twist-3 distributions obey simple DGLAP equations.
Combining these two limits, we propose improved DGLAP equations and compare
them numerically with the solutions of the exact evolution equations.Comment: 30 pages, LaTeX, 5 eps figures; typos fixed, preprint number adde
Evolution of twist-3 fragmentation functions in multicolour QCD and the Gribov-Lipatov reciprocity
It is shown that twist-3 fragmentation functions in the large- limit of
QCD obey the DGLAP evolution equations. The anomalous dimensions are found
explicitly. The Gribov-Lipatov reciprocity is violated at the twist-3 level in
the leading logarithmic approximation.Comment: 7 pages, Late
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