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arxiv: 1011.6203 · v1 · pith:2AJGWMUNnew · submitted 2010-11-29 · ✦ hep-ph

Gauge invariance, gluonic poles and single spin asymmetry in Drell-Yan processes

classification ✦ hep-ph
keywords drell-yangaugeasymmetrygluonichadroninvarianceprocessprocesses
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We explore the electromagnetic gauge invariance of the hadron tensor of the Drell-Yan process with one transversely polarized hadron. The special role is played by the contour gauge for gluon fields. The prescription for the gluonic pole in the twist 3 correlator is related to causality property and compared with the prescriptions for exclusive hard processes. As a result we get the extra contributions, which naively do not have an imaginary phase. The single spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan process is accordingly enhanced by the factor of two.

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