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Prospects of polarized fixed target Drell-Yan experiments

Description

It has been proposed that the Siverse transverse single spin asymmetry in Drell-Yan production in transversely polarized p+p collisions would have an opposite sign compared to what has been observed in the polarized Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) experiments. Experimental confirmation or disapproval of this prediction would provide a new fundamental test of QCD and shed new light on our theoretical understanding of the transverse spin physics phenomena. We discuss the prospects and physics sensitivities of polarized fixed target Drell-Yan experiments that could utilize the existing proton and other hadron beams at Fermilab, and polarized proton beams at RHIC with a polarized solid proton and/or neutron target option. We show that if realized, the new experiments would provide critical measurements of not only the sign change (or not) of Sivers functions, but also the information of quark and antiquark's Sivers distributions over a wide kinematic range.

Availability note (English)

Available from J.Phys.Conf.Ser., Volume 295, paper 012164

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
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Report number
JLAB-PHY--11-1419

Conference

Title
19. International Spin Physics Symposium
Acronym
SPIN 2010
Dates
27 Sep - 2 Oct 2010
Place
Julich (Germany)

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC05-06OR23177
Notes
doi 10.1088/1742-6596/295/1/012164
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science (United States)
Secondary number(s)
DOE/OR--23177-1800