Azimuthal and single spin asymmetries in hard scattering processes

U D'Alesio, F Murgia - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2008 - Elsevier
In this article we review the present understanding of azimuthal and single spin asymmetries
for inclusive and semi-inclusive particle production in unpolarized and polarized hadronic …

Universality of T-odd effects in single spin and azimuthal asymmetries

D Boer, PJ Mulders, F Pijlman - Nuclear Physics B, 2003 - Elsevier
We analyze the transverse-momentum-dependent distribution and fragmentation functions
in space-like and time-like hard processes involving at least two hadrons, in particular, 1 …

Single-spin asymmetries: The Trento conventions

A Bacchetta, U D'Alesio, M Diehl, CA Miller - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2004 - APS
During the workshop “Transversity: New Developments in Nucleon Spin Structure”(ECT*,
Trento, Italy, 14–18 June 2004), a series of recommendations was put forward by the …

Single-Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering<? format?> on a Transversely Polarized Hydrogen Target

A Airapetian, N Akopov, Z Akopov, M Amarian… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-
inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with transverse target …

The HERMES polarized hydrogen and deuterium gas target in the HERA electron storage ring

Hermes Collaboration - arXiv preprint physics/0408137, 2004 - arxiv.org
The HERMES hydrogen and deuterium nuclear-polarized gas targets have been in use
since 1996 with the polarized electron beam of HERA at DESY to study the spin structure of …

Dilepton production from polarized hadron hadron collisions

S Arnold, A Metz, M Schlegel - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2009 - APS
In this paper we present a comprehensive formalism for dilepton production from the
collision of two polarized spin-1 2 hadrons by identifying the general angular distribution of …

Extracting the Sivers function from polarized semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering data<? format?> and making predictions

M Anselmino, M Boglione, U D'Alesio, A Kotzinian… - Physical Review D …, 2005 - APS
The most recent data on the weighted transverse single spin asymmetry AUT sin⁡(ϕ h-ϕ S)
from HERMES and COMPASS Collaborations are analyzed within the LO parton model with …

Parton intrinsic motion in inclusive particle production: unpolarized cross sections,<? format?> single spin asymmetries, and the Sivers effect

U D'Alesio, F Murgia - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2004 - APS
The relevance of intrinsic (or primordial) transverse momentum of partons in the inclusive
production of particles at high energy and moderately large p T has been known for a long …

Transverse deformation of parton distributions and transversity decomposition<? format?> of angular momentum

M Burkardt - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2005 - APS
Impact parameter dependent parton distributions are transversely distorted when one
considers transversely polarized nucleons and/or quarks. This provides a physical …

[HTML][HTML] Gauge link structure in quark–quark correlators in hard processes

CJ Bomhof, PJ Mulders, F Pijlman - Physics Letters B, 2004 - Elsevier
Distribution functions in hard processes can be described by quark–quark correlators,
nonlocal matrix elements of quark fields. Color gauge invariance requires inclusion of …