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arXiv:0911.4306v1 [hep-ph] 22 Nov 2009

IN SINGLE-SPIN ASYMMETRIES

Philip G. Rat lie

1, 2 †

and Oleg V. Teryaev

3

(1)Dip.to di Fisi a e Matemati a, Università degliStudi dell'Insubria,Como

(2) IstitutoNazionale di Fisi a Nu leare, Sezione di MilanoBi o a, Milano

(3)Bogoliubov Lab. of Theoreti al Physi s, Joint Inst. for Nu lear Resear h, Dubna

E-mail: philip.rat lieunisubria.it

Abstra t

Wedis ussthewayinwhi hfa torisationispartiallymaintainedbutnevertheless

modied by pro ess-dependent olour fa tors in hadroni single-spin asymmetries.

WealsoexamineQCDevolutionofthetwist-three gluoni -polestrengthdeningan

ee tive T-odd Sivers fun tion in the large-

x

limit, where evolution of the T-even

transverse-spinDIS stru ture fun tion

g 2

isknown to be multipli ative.

1 Preamble

1.1 Motivation

Single-spin asymmetries (SSA's) have long been something of an enigma in high-energy

hadroni physi s. Prior to the rst experimental studies, hadroni SSA's were predi ted

to be very small for a variety of reasons. Experimentally, however, they turn out to be

large(uptotheorderof50%andmore)inmanyhadroni pro esses. Itwasalsolongheld

that su h asymmetries should eventuallyvanish with growing energy and/or

p T

. Again,

however, the SSA's sofar observed show nosigns of high-energy suppression.

1.2 SSA Basi s

Typi ally, SSA's ree tspinmomenta orrelations ofthe form

s · (p

k)

, where

s

issome

parti lepolarisationve tor,while

p

and

k

areinitial/nalparti le/jetmomenta. Asimple example might be:

p

the beam dire tion,

s

the target polarisation(transverse therefore withrespe t to

p

)and

k

the nal-stateparti ledire tion(ne essarilythen outof the

p



s

plane). Polarisations involved in SSA's must usually thus be transverse (although there

are ertain spe ial ex eptions).

It is more onvenient touse an heli itybasis via the transformation

|↑ / ↓i = 1 2  |+i ± i |−i .

(1)

A transverse-spin asymmetry then takes onthe (s hemati )form

A N ∼ h↑ | ↑i − h↓ | ↓i

h↑ | ↑i + h↓ | ↓i ∼ 2 Im h+|−i

h+|+i + h−|−i .

(2)

(2)

Theappearan eofboth

|+i

and

|−i

inthenumeratorsignalsthepresen eofaheli ity-ip amplitude. The pre ise form of the numerator implies interferen e between two dierent

heli ityamplitudes: oneheli ity-ipandonenon-ip,witharelativephasedieren e(the

imaginary phaseimplying naïve T-odd pro esses).

Early on Kane et al. [1℄ realised that in the massless (or high-energy) limit and the

Bornapproximationagaugetheorysu hasQCD annotfurnisheitherrequirement: fora

masslessfermion,heli ityis onserved and tree-diagramamplitudesare alwaysreal. This

ledtothe nowinfamousstatement[1℄: ... observationof signi antpolarizationsin the

above rea tions would ontradi t either QCD or its appli ability.

It therefore aused mu h surprise and interest when large asymmetries were found;

QCDnevertheless survived! Efremov andTeryaev[2℄soondis overed oneway out within

the ontext of perturbative QCD. Consideration of the three-parton orrelators involved

in,e.g.

g 2

,leads to the following ru ial observations: the relevantmass s ale is not that of the urrent quark, but of the hadronand the pseudo-two-loop natureof the diagrams

an generate animaginarypart in ertainregions of partoni phase spa e [3℄.

It took some time, however, before real progress was made and the ri hness of the

newly availablestru tures wasfullyexploitedsee[4℄. Indeed,itturns outthat thereare

a variety of me hanisms that an generate SSA's:

Transversity: this orrelates hadronheli ity ip toquark ip. Chirality onservation, however, requiresanother T-odd (distribution orfragmentation)fun tion.

Internal quarkmotion: the transverse polarisationof a quarkmay be orrelated with itsowntransversemomentum. This orrespondstotheSiversfun tion[5℄andrequires

orbital angularmomentum together with soft-gluonex hange.

Twist-3 transverse-spin dependent three-parton orrelators ( f.

g 2

): here the pseudo

two-loopnatureprovidesee tivespinip(viatheextraparton)andalsotherequired

imaginary part (viapoleterms).

The se ond and third me hanisms turn out to be related.

2 Single-Spin Asymmetries

2.1 Single-Hadron Produ tion

As a onsequen e of the multipli ity of underlying me hanisms, there are various types

of distribution and fragmentation fun tionsthat an bea tive ingenerating SSA's (even

ompetingin the same pro ess):

higher-twist distributionand fragmentationfun tions,

• k T

-dependent distribution and fragmentation fun tions,

interferen e fragmentationfun tions,

higher-spin fun tions, e.g.ve tor-meson fragmentation fun tions.

Consider then hadron produ tionwith one initial-state, transversely polarised hadron:

A (P A ) + B(P B ) → h(P h ) + X,

(3)

where hadron

A

is transversely polarised while

B

is not. The unpolarised (or spinless) hadron

h

is produ edat large transverse momentum

P hT

and PQCD is thusappli able.

Typi ally,

A

and

B

are protonswhile

h

may be apion or kaon et .

(3)

A

(P

A

)

B (P

B

)

X

X a

b d

c

X h (P

h

)

Figure 1. Fa torisation insingle-hadronprodu tion witha transversely polarised hadron.

The following SSAmay then be measured:

A h T = dσ(S T ) − dσ(−S T )

dσ(S T ) + dσ(−S T ) .

(4)

Assuming standard fa torisationto hold, the dierential ross-se tion for su h a pro ess

may be writtenformally as( f. Fig.1)

dσ = X

abc

X

αα

γγ

ρ a α

α f a (x a ) ⊗ f b (x b ) ⊗ dˆ σ αα

γγ

⊗ D γ h/c

γ (z),

(5)

where

f a

(

f b

) is the density of parton type

a

(

b

) inside hadron

A

(

B

),

ρ a αα

is the spin

density matrix for parton

a

,

D γγ h/c

is the fragmentation matrix for parton

c

into the nal

hadron

h

and

dˆ σ αα

γγ

is the partoni ross-se tion:

 dˆ σ dˆt



αα

γγ

= 1

16πˆ s 2 1 2

X

βδ

M αβγδ M α

βγ

δ ,

(6)

where

M αβγδ

is the amplitude for the hard partoni pro ess, see Fig. 2.

The o-diagonal elements of

D γγ h/c

vanish for an unpolarised produ ed hadron; i.e.,

D γγ h/c

∝ δ γγ

. Heli ity onservationthenimplies

α = α

,sothatthere anbenodependen e

on the spin of hadron

A

and all SSA's must vanish. To avoid su h a on lusion, either intrinsi quark transverse motion,or higher-twist ee ts must beinvoked.

M αβγδ

=

α, α

γ, γ

β δ

k

b

k

a

k

c

k

d

Figure 2. The hard partoni amplitude,

αβγδ

areDira indi es.

(4)

Quark intrinsi transverse motion an generate SSA's in three essentially dierent ways

(allne essarily

T

-odd ee ts):

1.

k T

inhadron

A

requires

f a (x a )

toberepla ed by

P a (x a , k T )

, whi hmay thendepend

on the spin of

A

(distribution level);

2.

κ T

in hadron

h

allows

D h/c γγ

tobenon-diagonal (fragmentation level);

3.

k T

in hadron

B

requires

f b (x b )

to be repla ed by

P b (x b , k T )

the spin of

b

in the

unpolarised

B

may then oupleto the spin of

a

(distribution level).

The three orresponding me hanisms are: 1.the Sivers ee t [5℄; 2. the Collins ee t [6℄;

3. an ee t studied by Boer [7℄ in Drell-Yan pro esses. Note that all su h intrinsi -

k T

,

-

κ T

or -

k T

ee ts are

T

-odd; i.e., they require ISI orFSI. Notetoothat whentransverse

parton motionis in luded, the QCD fa torisationtheorem isnot ompletelyproven, but

see [8℄.

Assuming fa torisationto bevalid, the ross-se tion is

E h

d 3 σ

d 3 P h = X

abc

X

αα

ββ

γγ

Z

dx a dx b d 2 k T d 2 k T d 2 κ T πz

× P a (x a , k T ) ρ a α

α P b (x b , k T ) ρ b β

β  dˆ σ dˆt



αα

ββ

γγ

D γ h/c

γ (z, κ T ),

(7)

where again

 dˆ σ dˆt



αα

ββ

γγ

= 1

16πˆ s 2 X

βδ

M αβγδ M α

βγ

δ .

(8)

TheSivers ee trelieson

T

-odd

k T

-dependentdistributionfun tionsandpredi ts anSSA of the form

E h

d 3 σ(S T ) d 3 P h − E h

d 3 σ(−S T ) d 3 P h

= |S T | X

abc

Z

dx a dx b

d 2 k T

πz ∆ T 0 f a (x a , k 2 T ) f b (x b ) dˆ σ(x a , x b , k T )

dˆt D h/c (z),

(9)

where

T 0 f

(relatedto

f 1T

) is a

T

-odd distribution.

2.3 Higher Twist

EfremovandTeryaev[2℄showedthatinQCDnon-vanishingSSA's analsobeobtainedby

invokinghighertwistandtheso- alledgluoni polesindiagramsinvolving

qqg

orrelators.

Su h asymmetries were later evaluated in the ontext of QCD fa torisation by Qiu and

Sterman, whostudiedboth dire t-photonprodu tion[4℄and hadronprodu tion[9℄. This

programhasbeenextendedbyKanazawaandKoike[10℄tothe hirally-odd ontributions.

The various possibilities are:

dσ = X

abc

n G a F (x a , y a ) ⊗ f b (x b ) ⊗ dˆ σ ⊗ D h/c (z)

+ ∆ T f a (x a ) ⊗ E F b (x b , y b ) ⊗ dˆ σ ⊗ D h/c (z)

+ ∆ T f a (x a ) ⊗ f b (x b ) ⊗ dˆ σ ′′ ⊗ D (3) (z) o

.

(5)

in [2℄ and studied in [4,9℄; the se ond ontains transversity and is the hirally-odd on-

tributionanalysed in [10℄; and the third also ontains transversity but requires a twist-3

fragmentationfun tion

D h/c (3)

.

2.4 Phenomenology

Anselmino et al. [11℄ have ompared data with various models inspired by the previous

possible (

k T

-dependent) me hanisms and nd good des riptions although they were not able to dierentiate between ontributions. The al ulations by Qiu and Sterman [4℄

(based on three-parton orrelators) also ompare well but are rather omplex. However,

the twist-3 orrelators (as in

g 2

)obey onstraining relationswith

k T

-dependent densities

and alsoexhibit a novelfa torisationproperty,to whi hwe nowturn.

2.5 Pole Fa torisation

Efremov and Teryaev [2℄ noti edthat the twist-3 diagrams involving three-parton orre-

lators an supply the ne essary imaginary part via apoleterm; spin-ip is impli it(and

Figure 3. Example of

a propagator pole in a

three-parton diagram.

due tothe gluon). The standard propagatorpres ription(

−•−

in

Fig. 3,with momentum

k

),

1

k 2 ± i ε = IP 1

k 2 ∓ i πδ(k 2 ).

(11)

leads to an imaginary ontribution for

k 2 → 0

. A gluon with

momentum

x g p

inserted into an (initial or nal) external line

p

sets

k = p − x g p

and thus as

x g → 0

we have that

k 2 → 0

.

The gluon vertex may then be fa tored out together with the

quark propagatorand pole, see Fig. 4. Su h fa torisation an be

performed systemati ally for all poles (gluon and fermion): on

all external legs with all insertions [12℄. The stru tures are still

omplex: for a given orrelator there are many insertions, leading to dierent signs and

momentum dependen e.

The olour stru tures of the various diagrams (with the dierent types of soft inser-

tions) are also dierent (we shall examine this question shortly). In all ases (exam-

ined) it turns out that just one diagramdominates in the large-

N c

limit,see Fig. 5. All

other insertions into external (on-shell) legs are relatively suppressed by

1/N c 2

. This

Pole Part

p

x

g

= −iπ p

.ξ p

.p ×

Figure4. Anexampleofpolefa torisation:

p

isthein omingprotonmomentum,

p

theoutgoing

hadronand

ξ

is the gluonpolarisation ve tor (lyinginthetransverseplane).

(6)

Figure 5. Example of

a dominant propagator

polediagram.

sis [13℄): the leading diagrams provide a good approximation.

The analysis has yettoberepeated forallthe othertwist-3 on-

tributions (e.g. alsoinfragmentation).

A questionimmediatelyarises: ouldtherebeanydire trela-

tionship between the twist-3 and

k T

-dependent me hanisms? It might be hoped that, via the equations of motion et ., unique

predi tions for single-spin azimuthal asymmetries ould be ob-

tained by linking the (e.g. Sivers- or Collins-like)

k T

-dependent

me hanismsto the (EfremovTeryaev)higher-twist three-parton

me hanisms. An earlyattempt was made by Ma and Wang [14℄

for the Drell-Yan pro ess, but the predi tions were found not to

be unique. Ji et al. [15℄ have sin e also examined the relation-

ship between the

k T

-dependent and higher-twist me hanismsby mat hing the two in an intermediate

k T

region of ommonvalidity.

3 More on Multiparton Correlators

3.1 Colour Modi ation

In[16℄weprovidedanaposterioriproofoftherelationbetweentwist-3and

k T

-dependen e.

The starting pointis a fa torisedformulaforthe Sivers fun tion:

d∆σ ∼ Z

d 2 k T dx f

S

(x, k T ) ǫ ρsP k

T

Trγ ρ H(xP, k T ) .

(12)

Expanding the subpro ess oe ient fun tion

H

in powers of

k T

and keeping the rst

non-vanishingterm leads to

∼ Z

d 2 k T dx f

S

(x, k T ) k α T ǫ ρsP k

T

Tr



γ ρ ∂H(xP, k T )

∂k T α



k

T

=0

.

(13)

By exploitingvarious identities and the fa t that there are other momentainvolved, this

an be rearranged into the following form:

d∆σ ∼ M Z

dx f

S

(1) (x) ǫ αsP n Tr



P / ∂H(xP, k T )

∂k α T



k

T

=0

,

(14)

where

f

S

(1) (x) = Z

d 2 k T f

S

(x, k T ) k 2 T

2M 2 .

(15)

Thenalexpression oin ideswiththemasterformulaofKoikeandTanaka[17℄fortwist-3

gluoni poles in high-

p T

pro esses. The Sivers fun tion an thus be identied with the

gluoni -polestrength

T (x, x)

multipliedby a pro ess-dependent olour fa tor.

The sign of the Sivers fun tiondepends on whi h of ISI or FSIis relevant:

f (1) (x) = X C i

1 T (x, x),

(7)

where

C i

is arelative olour fa tor dened with respe t toan Abelian subpro ess. Emis- sion of an extra hard gluon is needed to generate high

p T

and, a ording to the pro ess

under onsideration, FSI may o ur before or after this emission, leading to dierent

olour fa tors. In this sense, fa torisation is broken in SIDIS, albeit in a simple and

a ountable manner. Figure 6depi ts the appli ation of this relationto high-

p T

SIDIS.

π

π

Figure 6. Twist-3 SIDIS

π

produ tion viaquark andgluon fragmentation.

3.2 Asymptoti Behaviour

The relation between gluoni poles (e.g. the Sivers fun tion, and T-even transverse-spin

ee ts, e.g.

g 2

[1822℄) still remains un lear. Although there are model-based estimates and approximate sumrules, the ompatibilityofgeneraltwist-3evolution withdedi ated

studies of gluoni -poleevolution ([23, 24℄and at NLO[25℄)is stillunproven.

In the large-

x

limitthe evolution equations for

g 2

diagonalise in the double-moment arguments[26℄. FortheSiversfun tionandgluoni poles,thisistheimportantkinemati al

region [4℄. The gluoni -polestrength

T (x)

, orresponds to a spe i matrix element [4℄.

It is alsothe residue of ageneral

qqg

ve tor orrelator

b V (x 1 , x 2 )

[27℄:

b V (x 1 , x 2 ) = T ( x

1

+x 2

2

)

x 1 − x 2 +

regularpart

,

(17)

whi his dened as

b V (x 1 , x 2 ) = i M

Z dλ 1 dλ 2

2π e

1

(x

1

−x

2

)+iλ

2

x

2

ǫ µsp

1

n hp 1 , s| ¯ ψ(0) / n D µ (λ 1 ) ψ(λ 2 )|p 1 , si .

(18)

There isthough one other orrelator, proje ted onto anaxial Dira matrix:

b A (x 1 , x 2 ) = 1 M

Z dλ 1 dλ 2

π e

1

(x

1

−x

2

)+iλ

2

x

2

hp 1 , s| ¯ ψ(0) / n γ 5 s·D(λ 1 ) ψ(λ 2 )|p 1 , si .

(19)

This lastis required to omplete the des ription of transverse-spin ee ts, inboth SSA's

and

g 2

. The two orrelatorshave opposite symmetry properties for

x 1 ↔ x 2

:

b A (x 1 , x 2 ) = b A (x 2 , x 1 ), b V (x 1 , x 2 ) = −b V (x 2 , x 1 ),

(20)

determined by

T

invarian e. In both DIS and SSA's justone ombinationappears [19℄:

b (x 1 , x 2 ) = b A (x 2 , x 1 ) − b V (x 1 , x 2 ).

(21)

(8)

whi his determined by matrix elements of the gluon eld strength:

Y (x 1 , x 2 ) = (x 1 − x 2 ) b (x 1 , x 2 ).

(22)

It should be safeto assume that

b (x 1 , x 2 )

has no doublepoleand thus

T (x) = Y (x, x).

(23)

Evolution is easier studied in Mellin-moment form, implying double moments for

Y (x, y)

:

Y mn = Z

dx dy x m y n Y (x, y),

(24)

wherethe allowed regionsare

|x|

,

|y|

and

|x − y| < 1

(re allthat negative values indi ate

antiquark distributions). We wish to examine the behaviour for

x

and

y

both lose to

unity and therefore lose to ea h other. The gluoni pole thus provides the dominant

ontribution:

x,y→1 lim Y (x, y) = T ( x+y 2 ) + O(x − y).

(25)

In this approximation(now large

m, n

) the leading-order evolutionequations simplify:

d

ds Y nn = 4



C F + C A

2



ln n Y nn ,

(26)

where the evolution variable is

s = β 0 −1 ln ln Q 2

. In terms of

T (x)

this is

T (x) = 4 ˙



C F + C A

2

 Z 1 x

dz (1 − z) (1 − x)

1 (z − x) +

T (z),

(27)

whi hissimilarto theunpolarised ase, but diers by a olourfa tor

(C F + C A /2)

anda

softening fa tor

(1 − z)/(1 − x)

.

The extra pie e in the olour fa tor (

C A /2

) vis-a-vis the unpolarised ase (just

C F

)

ree ts the presen e of a third a tive partonthe gluon. That is, the pole stru ture of

three-partonkernelsisidenti al,buttheee tive olour hargeoftheextragluonis

C A /2

.

The softening fa tor isinessential to the asymptoti solution,it merely implies standard

evolution for the fun tion

f (x) = (1 − x)T (x)

. For an initial

f (x, Q 2 0 ) = (1 − x) a

, the

asymptoti solution [28℄ is the same but modied by

a → a(s)

, with

a(s) = a + 4



C F + C A

2



s.

(28)

For

T (x)

,

a

shifts to

a − 1

; the evolution modi ation is identi al; the spin-averaged asymptoti solutions are thus also valid for

T (x)

. This large-

x

limit of the evolution

agrees, barringthe olourfa tor itself,with studiesof gluoni -poleevolution [2325℄. We

should note here that Braun et al. [29℄ have found errors in [23℄ and [25℄; our results for

the logarithmi term are, however, unae ted.

(9)

ViewingtheSivers fun tionasanee tivetwist-3gluoni -pole ontribution[16℄,itisseen

tobe pro ess dependent: besides asign (ISIvs.FSI), thereis apro ess-dependent olour

fa tor. This fa tor is determined by the olour harge of the initial and nal partons.

It generates the sign dieren e between SIDIS and Drell-Yanat low

p T

, but in hadroni

rea tions at high

p T

it is more ompli ated. Su h a pi ture is omplementary to the mat hing in the region of ommon validity. The mat hing between various

p T

regions

now takes the form of a

p T

-dependent olour fa tor. It also lends some justi ation to the possibility of globalSivers fun tion ts [30℄.

We have shown that generi twist-3 evolution is appli ableto the Sivers fun tion. Its

ee tive nature allows us to relate the evolution of T-odd (Sivers fun tion) and T-even

(gluoni pole) quantities. A vital ingredient here is the large-

x

approximation, where gluoni -polesdominateandthe evolutionsimplies. TheSivers-fun tionevolutionisthen

multipli ativeanddes ribedby a olour-fa tormodiedtwist-2spin-averagedkernel[31℄.

A knowledgments

I wish to thank the organisers for invitingmeto this delightful and stimulatingmeeting:

despitetheirrepeatedinvitations,thisistherst timeIhavebeenable toparti ipateina

DSPIN workshopand tovisitDubna. The studiespresented herehavebeen performedin

ollaborationwith Oleg Teryaev, see [16℄ and work in progress [31℄. The support for the

visitsof Teryaev toComo was provided by the Landau Network (Como)and also by the

re ently ompleted (and hopefully to be renewed) Italian ministry-funded PRIN2006 on

Transversity. Someof the ideas have already been presented atother workshops [3234℄.

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