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A New Mechanism for Generating a Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry

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arxiv 1201.5890 v5 pith:2VEMRF37 submitted 2012-01-27 hep-ph nucl-th

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We propose a new mechanism for generating a single transverse spin asymmetry (STSA) in polarized proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions in the high-energy scattering approximation. In this framework the STSA originates from the q->q G splitting in the projectile (proton) light-cone wave function followed by a perturbative (C-odd) odderon interaction, together with a C-even interaction, between the projectile and the target. We show that some aspects of the obtained expression for the STSA of the produced quarks are in qualitative agreement with experiment: STSA decreases with decreasing projectile x_F and is a non-monotonic function of the transverse momentum k_T. In our framework the STSA peaks at k_T near the saturation scale Q_s. Our mechanism predicts that the quark STSA in proton-nucleus collisions should be much smaller than in proton-proton collisions. We also observe that in our formalism the STSA for prompt photons is zero.

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