92 research outputs found
Perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of azimuthal asymmetries in polarized ep
We discuss the possibilities of testing of perturbative quantum
chromodynamics through azimuthal asymmetries in polarized ep in the context of
future collider and fixed target facilities, such as Electron Ion Collider and
TESLA-N.Comment: 4 pages, Latex. Talk presented at the 15th International Spin Physics
Symposium, Spin 2002, Brookhaven National Laboratory, September 9-14, 200
Transversity Distribution and Polarized Fragmentation Function from Semi-inclusive Pion Electroproduction
A method is discussed to determine the hitherto unknown u-quark transversity
distribution from a planned HERMES measurement of a single-spin asymmetry in
semi-inclusive pion electroproduction off a transversely polarized target.
Assuming u-quark dominance, the measurement yields the shapes of the
transversity distribution and of the ratio of a polarized and the unpolarized
u-quark fragmentation functions. The unknown relative normalization can be
obtained by identifying the transversity distribution with the well-known
helicity distribution at large x. The systematic uncertainty of the method is
dominated by the assumption of u-quark dominance.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, revised version as will be published in EPJ
Spin-independent and double-spin cos(phi) asymmetries in semi-inclusive pion electroproduction
We consider the cos(phi) dependence of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry
for charged pion electroproduction in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering,
emphasizing intrinsic transverse momentum effects. This azimuthal asymmetry
allows to measure the cos(phi) moments of the unpolarized and double-spin
cross-section, simultaneously. The size of the asymmetry, in the approximation
where all twist-3 interaction-dependent distribution and fragmentation
functions are set to zero, is estimated for HERMES kinematics; both the
spin-independent and the double-spin cos(phi) moments are predicted to be
sizeable and negative.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages, 4 figures. Discussion on the acceptance effects
added; recent parameterizations of distribution and fragmentation functions
used, figures replaced. Final version to appear in Physics Letters
Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Electroproduction: Access to Transversity
We discuss the quark transversity distribution function and a possible way to
access it through the measurement of single spin azimuthal asymmetry in
semi-inclusive single pion electroproduction on a transversely polarized
target.Comment: 5 pages, Latex using aipproc.sty (included), to appear in proceedings
of "Second Workshop on Physics with an Electron Polarized Light Ion
Collider", Sept. 14-16, 2000, MIT, Cambridge, US
Azimuthal Asymmetries: Access to Novel Structure Functions
One of the most interesting consequence of non-zero intrinsic transverse
momentum of partons in the nucleon is the nontrivial azimuthal dependence of
the cross section of hard scattering processes. Many of the observable
asymmetries contain unknown functions which provide essential information on
the quark and gluon structure. Several of them have been studied in the last
few years; we discuss their qualitative and quantitative features in
semi-inclusive DIS.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, 7 eps figures, Talk presented at the 15th
International Spin Physics Symposium, Spin 2002, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, September 9-14, 200
Kinematical contributions to the transverse asymmetry in semi-inclusive DIS
We discuss the contributions of the transverse spin component of the target
to the double-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of
longitudinally polarized electrons off longitudinally polarized protons.Comment: LaTeX, 4 pages, 4 figures, uses espcrc1.sty, talk presented at the
European Workshop on the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (QCD-N'02), Ferrara,
Italy, April 3-6, 200
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