Role of Cahn and Sivers effects in deep inelastic scattering

By M. Anselmino, M. Boglione, U. D’Alesio, A. Kotzinian, F. Murgia, Alexei Prokudin. 2005

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The role of intrinsic k {sub perpendicular} in inclusive and semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering processes (lp{yields}lhX) is studied with exact kinematics within QCD parton model at leading order; the dependence of the unpolarized cross section on the azimuthal angle between the leptonic and the hadron production planes (Cahn effect) is compared with data and used to estimate the average values of k{sub perpendicular} both in quark distribution and fragmentation functions. The resulting picture is applied to the description of the weighted single spin asymmetry A{sub UT}{sup sin({phi}{sub {pi}}{sup -{phi}}{sub S})} recently measured by the HERMES collaboration at DESY; this allows to extract some simple models for the quark Sivers functions. These are compared with the Sivers functions which succeed in describing the data on transverse single spin asymmetries in p{sup {up_arrow}}p{yields}{pi}X processes; the two sets of functions are not inconsistent. The extracted Sivers functions give predictions for the COMPASS measurement of A{sub UT}{sup sin({phi}{sub {pi}}{sup -{phi}}{sub S})} in agreement with recent preliminary data, while their contribution to HERMES A{sub UL}{sup sin{phi}{sub {pi}}} is computed and found to be small. Predictions for A{sub UT}{sup sin({phi}{sub K}{sup -{phi}}{sub S})} for kaon production at HERMES are also given.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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