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.itAbstra 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-eventransverse-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)
, wheres
issomeparti lepolarisationve tor,while
p
andk
areinitial/nalparti le/jetmomenta. Asimple example might be:p
the beam dire tion,s
the target polarisation(transverse therefore withrespe t top
)andk
the nal-stateparti ledire tion(ne essarilythen outof thep
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)Theappearan eofboth
|+i
and|−i
inthenumeratorsignalsthepresen eofaheli ity-ip amplitude. The pre ise form of the numerator implies interferen e between two dierentheli 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 diagramsan 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℄andrequiresorbital angularmomentum together with soft-gluonex hange.
•
Twist-3 transverse-spin dependent three-parton orrelators ( f.g 2
): here the pseudotwo-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 whileB
is not. The unpolarised (or spinless) hadronh
is produ edat large transverse momentumP hT
and PQCD is thusappli able.Typi ally,
A
andB
are protonswhileh
may be apion or kaon et .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 typea
(b
) inside hadronA
(B
),ρ a αα
′ is the spindensity matrix for parton
a
,D γγ h/c
′ is the fragmentation matrix for partonc
into the nalhadron
h
anddˆ 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 onservationthenimpliesα = α ′
,sothatthere anbenodependen eon 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
bk
ak
ck
dFigure 2. The hard partoni amplitude,
αβγδ
areDira indi es.Quark intrinsi transverse motion an generate SSA's in three essentially dierent ways
(allne essarily
T
-odd ee ts):1.
k T
inhadronA
requiresf a (x a )
toberepla ed byP a (x a , k T )
, whi hmay thendependon the spin of
A
(distribution level);2.
κ T
in hadronh
allowsD h/c γγ
′ tobenon-diagonal (fragmentation level);3.
k ′ T
in hadronB
requiresf b (x b )
to be repla ed byP b (x b , k ′ T )
the spin ofb
in theunpolarised
B
may then oupleto the spin ofa
(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 areT
-odd; i.e., they require ISI orFSI. Notetoothat whentransverseparton 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
-oddk T
-dependentdistributionfun tionsandpredi ts anSSA of the formE 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
(relatedtof 1T ⊥
) is aT
-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
.
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 relationswithk T
-dependent densitiesand 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(
−•−
inFig. 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 withmomentum
x g p
inserted into an (initial or nal) external linep ′
sets
k = p ′ − x g p
and thus asx g → 0
we have thatk 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. Allother 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 ′
theoutgoinghadronand
ξ
is the gluonpolarisation ve tor (lyinginthetransverseplane).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 ., uniquepredi tions for single-spin azimuthal asymmetries ould be ob-
tained by linking the (e.g. Sivers- or Collins-like)
k T
-dependentme 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 intermediatek 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
TTrγ ρ H(xP, k T ) .
(12)Expanding the subpro ess oe ient fun tion
H
in powers ofk T
and keeping the rstnon-vanishingterm leads to
∼ Z
d 2 k T dx f
S(x, k T ) k α T ǫ ρsP k
TTr
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 thegluoni -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),
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 highp T
and, a ording to the pro essunder 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 atedstudies of gluoni -poleevolution ([23, 24℄and at NLO[25℄)is stillunproven.
In the large-
x
limitthe evolution equations forg 2
diagonalise in the double-moment arguments[26℄. FortheSiversfun tionandgluoni poles,thisistheimportantkinemati alregion [4℄. The gluoni -polestrength
T (x)
, orresponds to a spe i matrix element [4℄.It is alsothe residue of ageneral
qqg
ve tor orrelatorb 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 iλ
1(x
1−x
2)+iλ
2x
2ǫ µsp
1n 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 iλ
1(x
1−x
2)+iλ
2x
2hp 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 forx 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)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 thusT (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 ateantiquark distributions). We wish to examine the behaviour for
x
andy
both lose tounity 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 ofT (x)
this isT (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)
andasoftening fa tor
(1 − z)/(1 − x)
.The extra pie e in the olour fa tor (
C A /2
) vis-a-vis the unpolarised ase (justC 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 initialf (x, Q 2 0 ) = (1 − x) a
, theasymptoti solution [28℄ is the same but modied by
a → a(s)
, witha(s) = a + 4
C F + C A
2
s.
(28)For
T (x)
,a
shifts toa − 1
; the evolution modi ation is identi al; the spin-averaged asymptoti solutions are thus also valid forT (x)
. This large-x
limit of the evolutionagrees, 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.
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 hadronirea 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 variousp T
regionsnow 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 tionevolutionisthenmultipli 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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