Single-spin asymmetries in inclusive DIS and in hadronic collisions
- Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 (United States)
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Regensburg University, 93053 Regensburg (Germany)
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Tuebingen University, 72076 Tuebingen (Germany)
Transverse single-spin asymmetries in inclusive deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering can be generated through multi-photon exchange between the leptonic and the hadronic part of the process. Here we consider two-photon exchange and mainly focus on the transverse target spin asymmetry. In particular, we investigate the case where two photons couple to different quarks. Such a contribution involves a quark-photon-quark correlator in the nucleon, which has a (modeldependent) relation to the Efremov-Teryaev-Qiu-Sterman quark-gluon-quark correlator T{sub F}. Using different parameterizations for T{sub F} we compute the transverse target spin asymmetries for both a proton and a neutron target and compare the results to recent experimental data. In addition, potential implications for our general understanding of single-spin asymmetries in hard scattering processes are discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 22116920
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1523, Issue 1; Conference: DIFFRACTION 2012: International workshop on diffraction in high energy physics, Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Spain), 10-15 Sep 2012; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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