Bessel-weighted asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)021zbMATH Open1303.81204arXiv1107.5294OpenAlexW3103122974MaRDI QIDQ489658FDOQ489658

Authors: B. U. Musch, Daniël Boer, Leonard Gamberg, Alexei Prokudin 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: The concept of weighted asymmetries is revisited for semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. We consider the cross section in Fourier space, conjugate to the outgoing hadron's transverse momentum, where convolutions of transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions and fragmentation functions become simple products. Individual asymmetric terms in the cross section can be projected out by means of a generalized set of weights involving Bessel functions. Advantages of employing these Bessel weights are that they suppress (divergent) contributions from high transverse momentum and that soft factors cancel in (Bessel-) weighted asymmetries. Also, the resulting compact expressions immediately connect to previous work on evolution equations for transverse momentum dependent parton distribution and fragmentation functions and to quantities accessible in lattice QCD. Bessel weighted asymmetries are thus model independent observables that augment the description and our understanding of correlations of spin and momentum in nucleon structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5294

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zbMATH Keywords

QCDdeep inelastic scatteringparton model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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