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Erratum to "Azimuthal asymmetry in electro-production of neutral pions in semi-inclusive DIS" published in Phys. Lett. B522 (2001) 37
We correct our analysis of the HERMES experiment for the azimuthal
sin(phi)-spin asymmetry in semi-inclusive hadroproduction in DIS on
longitudinally (with respect to the lepton momentum) polarized target because
of discovered misprint in sign in the paper P.J.Mulders and R.D.Tangerman,
Nucl. Phys. B 461 (1996) 197.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures. Sign of sin(2phi)-asymmetry correcte
On the chains of star complexes and superclouds in spiral arms
The relation is studied between occurrence of a regular chain of star
complexes and superclouds in a spiral arm, and other properties of the latter.
A regular string of star complexes is located in the north-western arm of M31;
they have about the same size 0.6 kpc with spacing of 1.1 kpc. Within the same
arm segment the regular magnetic field with the wavelength of 2.3 kpc was found
by Beck et al. (1989). We noted that this wavelength is twice as large as the
spacing between complexes and suggested that they were formed in result of
magneto-gravitational instability developed along the arm. In this NW arm, star
complexes are located inside the gas-dust lane, whilst in the south-western arm
of M31 the gas-dust lane is upstream of the bright and uniform stellar arm.
Earlier, evidence for the age gradient has been found in the SW arm. All these
are signatures of a spiral shock, which may be associated with unusually large
(for M31) pitch-angle of this SW arm segment. Such a shock may prevent the
formation of the regular magnetic field, which might explain the absence of
star complexes there. Anti-correlation between shock wave signatures and
presence of star complexes is observed in spiral arms of a few other galaxies.
Regular chains of star complexes and superclouds in spiral arms are rare, which
may imply that a rather specific mechanism is involved in their formation, and
the most probable one is the Parker-Jeans instability. The spiral pattern of
our Galaxy is briefly discussed; it may be of M101 type in the outer parts. The
regular bi-modal spacing of HI superclouds is found in Carina and Cygnus
(Outer) arms, which may be an indirect evidence for the regular magnetic field
along these arms.Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
Transversity in the chiral quark--soliton model and single spin asymmetries
A short review of single spin asymmetries in deep inelastic semi-inclusive
processes, connected with prediction of chiral quark-soliton model for the
nucleon transversity distributions, its possible theoretical understanding in
the framework of QCD-induced approach and arising difficulties is given.Comment: Contribution to the Festschrift on the occasion of Klaus Goeke's 60th
birthday, to appear in Annalen der Physik, 13 pages, 15 figure
RAMPEX - a new spin experiment (presented for HELION97, 20-24 Jan 1997, Kobe, Japan)
RAMPEX - Russian-AMerican Polarization EXperiment - is dedicated to studies
of one-spin asymmetries which have twist-3 and also twist-2 origin, in hard and
semi-hard inclusive processes on the polarized propane-diol target. A special
consideration has been given for the prospects of using polarized 3He target.
The studies will be performed at the Serpukhov accelerator at 70 GeV/c (proton
beam) and 40 GeV/c (pi- beam).Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Sivers vs. Collins effect in azimuthal single spin asymmetries in pion production in SIDIS
Recently it has been argued that the transverse momentum dependent twist-2
Sivers distribution function does not vanish in QCD. Therefore both, the
Collins and Sivers effects, should be considered in order to explain the
azimuthal single spin asymmetries A(UL) in pion production in semi-inclusive
deeply inelastic lepton scattering of a longitudinally polarized target. On the
basis of presently available phenomenological information on the Sivers
function we estimate that for those asymmetries A(UL) in the kinematic region
of the HERMES experiments the Sivers effect can be neglected with respect to
the Collins effect. It is argued that the same feature holds also for the
COMPASS and CLAS experiments. This justifies theoretical approaches to
understand the HERMES data on the basis of the Collins effect only.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. References added, small changes in text, Appendix
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Probing the three-gluon correlation functions by the single spin asymmetry in p^\uparrow p\to DX
We study the single transverse-spin asymmetry for the inclusive open-charm
production in the pp-collision, p^\uparrow p\to DX, induced by the three-gluon
correlation functions in the polarized nucleon. We derive the corresponding
twist-3 cross section formula in the leading order with respect to the QCD
coupling constant. As in the case of the semi-inclusive deep inelastic
scattering, ep^\uparrow\to eDX, our result differs from the previous result in
the literature. We also derive a "master formula" which expresses the twist-3
cross section in terms of the gg\to c\bar{c} hard scattering cross section. We
present a model calculation of the asymmetry at the RHIC energy, demonstrating
the sensitivity of the asymmetry on the form of the three-gluon correlation
functions.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figures. Final version to appear in PRD. Some changes in
the section of numerical calculation include
Azimuthal single spin asymmetries in SIDIS in the light of chiral symmetry breaking
An attempt is made to understand the z-dependence of the azimuthal single
spin asymmetries observed by the HERMES collaboration in terms of chiral models
based on effective quark and Goldstone boson degrees of freedom. The effects of
respectively neglecting and considering Gaussian intrinsic parton transverse
momenta and the Sivers effect are explored. Predictions for the transverse
target polarization experiment at HERMES are presented.Comment: 14 pages, 18 figure
New observables in longitudinal single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive DIS
We analyze longitudinal beam and target single-spin asymmetries in
semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering and in jet deep inelastic scattering,
including all possible twist-3 contributions as well as quark mass corrections.
We take into account the path-ordered exponential in the soft correlators and
show that it leads to the introduction of a new distribution and a new
fragmentation function contributing to the asymmetries.Comment: 8 page
Transverse single spin asymmetry in the Drell-Yan process
We revisit the transverse single spin asymmetry in the angular distribution
of a Drell-Yan dilepton pair. We study this asymmetry by using twist-3
collinear factorization, and we obtain the same result both in covariant gauge
and in the light-cone gauge. Moreover, we have checked the electromagnetic
gauge invariance of our calculation. Our final expression for the asymmetry
differs from all the previous results given in the literature. The overall sign
of this asymmetry is as important as the sign of the Sivers asymmetry in
Drell-Yan.Comment: 9 page
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