Published July 12, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

'T-odd effects' in unpolarized Drell-Yan scattering

  • 1. Division of Science, Penn State-Berks, Reading, PA 19610 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 (United States)

Description

We consider the leading twist ''T-odd'' contributions as the dominant source of the cos2φ azimuthal asymmetry in unpolarized pp-bar→μ-μ+X di-lepton production in Drell-Yan scattering. This asymmetry contains information on the distribution of quark transverse spin in an unpolarized proton. In a parton-spectator framework we estimate these asymmetries at 50 GeV center of mass energy. This azimuthal asymmetry is interesting in light of proposed experiments at GSI, where an anti-proton beam is ideal for studying the transversity properties of quarks due to the dominance of valence quark effects

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.05.043;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0506127v1;
PII
S0370-2693(07)00573-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
650
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 362-368
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.