Effective role of unpolarized nonvalence partons in Drell-Yan single spin asymmetries

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dc.creatorBianconi, Andrea
dc.creatorRadici, Marco
dc.date2006-10-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:05:59Z
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dc.descriptionWe perform numerical simulations of the Sivers effect from single spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan processes on transversely polarized protons. We consider colliding antiprotons and pions at different kinematic conditions of interest for the future planned experiments. We conventionally name "framework I" the results obtained when properly accounting for the various flavor dependent polarized valence contributions in the numerator of the asymmetry, and for the unpolarized nonvalence contribution in its denominator. We name "framework II" the results obtained when taking a suitable flavor average of the valence contributions and neglecting the nonvalence ones. We compare the two methods, also with respect to the input parametrization of the Sivers function which is extracted from data with approximations sometimes intermediate between frameworks I and II. Deviations between the two approaches are found to be small except for dilepton masses below 3 GeV. The Sivers effect is used as a test case; the arguments can be generalized to other interesting azimuthal asymmetries in Drell-Yan processes, such as the Boer-Mulders effect.
dc.description13 pages, 9 figures in eps format
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610317
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0610317
dc.identifierJ.Phys.G34:1595-1610,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0954-3899/34/7/002
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189377
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleEffective role of unpolarized nonvalence partons in Drell-Yan single spin asymmetries
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