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arxiv: hep-ph/0412141 · v1 · pith:PULX62THnew · submitted 2004-12-10 · ✦ hep-ph

Transversity and dihadron fragmentation functions

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keywords transversityfragmentationfunctionsdihadrondistributionleadingquarksensitive
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The observation of the quark transversity distribution requires another soft object sensitive to the quark's transverse spin. Dihadron fragmentation functions represent a convenient tool to analyze partonic spin, which can influence the angular distribution of the two hadrons. In particular, the so-called interference fragmentation functions can be used to probe transversity both in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering as well as proton-proton collisions. We discuss two single-spin asymmetries sensitive to transversity in the these two processes, at leading twist and leading order in alpha_S.

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