Gauge invariance and QCD twist-3 factorization for single spin asymmetries

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2015)163MaRDI QIDQ1754948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianqiang Yang

Publication date 31 May 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2938

zbMATH Keywords

QCD phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The collinear factorization at twist-3 for Drell-Yan processes is studied with the motivation to solve the discrepancy in literature about the single spin asymmetry in the lepton angular distribution, and to show how QCD gauge invariance is realized in the hadronic tensor. The obtained result here agrees with our early result derived with a totally different approach. In addition to the asymmetry we can construct another two observables to identify the spin effect. We show that the gauge invariance of different contributions in the hadronic tensor is made in different ways by summing the effects of gluon exchanges. More interestingly is that we can show that the virtual correction to one structure function of the hadronic tensor, hence to some weighted SSA observables, is completely determined by the quark form factor. This will simplify the calculation of higher order corrections. The corresponding result in semi-inclusive DIS is also given for the comparison with Drell-Yan processes.

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• Archetypal factorization and gluon poles in semi-exclusive reactions
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• Twist-3 formalism for single transverse spin asymmetry reexamined: semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

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