FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS AND SINGLE-SPIN ASYMMETRIES IN SEMI-INCLUSIVE DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03014678zbMATH Open1037.81617arXivhep-ph/0201296OpenAlexW2087888418MaRDI QIDQ4409084FDOQ4409084

Authors: Stanley J. Brodsky, Ivan Schmidt, Dae Sung Hwang 

Publication date: 2003

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recent measurements from the HERMES and SMC collaborations show a remarkably large azimuthal single-spin asymmetries A_{UL} and A_{UT} of the proton in semi-inclusive pion leptoproduction. We show that final-state interactions from gluon exchange between the outgoing quark and the target spectator system lead to single-spin asymmetries in deep inelastic lepton-proton scattering at leading twist in perturbative QCD; i.e., the rescattering corrections are not power-law suppressed at large photon virtuality Q^2 at fixed x_{bj}. The existence of such single-spin asymmetries requires a phase difference between two amplitudes coupling the proton target with J^z_p = + 1/2 and -1/2 to the same final state, the same amplitudes which are necessary to produce a nonzero proton anomalous magnetic moment. We show that the exchange of gauge particles between the outgoing quark and the proton spectators produces a Coulomb-like complex phase which depends on the angular momentum L_z of the proton's constituents and is thus distinct for different proton spin amplitudes. The single-spin asymmetry which arises from such final-state interactions does not factorize into a product of distribution function and fragmentation function, and it is not related to the transversity distribution delta q(x,Q) which correlates transversely polarized quarks with the spin of the transversely polarized target nucleon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0201296

zbMATH Keywords

electroproductionmodel of a spin-\(\frac12\) protonquark-diquark model of a nucleon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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• Light-cone representation of the spin and orbital angular momentum of relativistic composite systems\(^{\star }\)

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