Published August 4, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Double Transverse-Spin Asymmetries for Small-QT Drell-Yan Pair Production in pp-bar Collisions

  • 1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Juntendo University, Inba, Chiba 270-1695 (Japan)

Description

We discuss the double-spin asymmetries in transversely polarized Drell-Yan process, calculating all-order gluon resummation corrections up to the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. This resummation is relevant when the transverse-momentum QT of the produced lepton pair is small, and reproduces the (fixed-order) next-to-leading QCD corrections upon integrating over QT. The resummation corrections in pp-bar-collision behave differently compared with pp-collision cases, and are small at the kinematics in the proposed GSI experiments. This fact allows us to predict large value of the double-spin asymmetries at GSI, using recent empirical information on the transversity.

Additional details

Identifiers

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1149
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 499-502
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
18. international spin physics symposium
Dates
6-11 Oct 2008
Place
Charlottesville, VA (United States)

Optional Information

Notes
(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics