Factorization at fixed Q^2(1 - x)

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/086MaRDI QIDQ440436zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Hoyer, Matti Järvinen, Samu Kurki

Publication date 18 August 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0626

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We consider QCD factorization between hard and soft subprocesses in inclusive reactions where the momentum fraction x of one parton approaches unity as the hard scale Q^2 -> infty, such that Q^2(1-x) is fixed. In this "BB limit" the entire (multi-parton) Fock state containing the high x parton is coherent with the hard subprocess. The soft contribution is given by a forward multiparton matrix element. The BB limit corresponds to a fixed (large or small) missing mass and is thus closely connected to exclusive production. We analyze the Drell-Yan process h + N -> gamma^* + X in detail, explaining why the virtual photon is longitudinally polarized for h = pi and transversely polarized for h = p. The BB limit may be relevant also for other phenomena observed at high x, such as the large single spin asymmetries of p p -> Lambda^uparrow X and in p p^uparrow -> pi X.

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