Abstract
We provide the first rigorous numerical analysis of the longitudinal-transverse double-spin asymmetry in electron-nucleon and proton-proton collisions for the case where only a single pion, jet, or photon is detected in the final state. Given recent extractions of certain, previously unknown, nonperturbative functions, we are able to compute contributions from all terms relevant for and make realistic predictions for the observable at Jefferson Lab (JLab) 12 GeV, COMPASS, the future Electron-Ion Collider, and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We also compare our results to a JLab 6 GeV measurement, which are the only data available for this type of reaction. The twist-3 nature of makes it a potentially fruitful avenue to probe quark-gluon-quark correlations in hadrons as well as provide insights into dynamical quark mass generation in QCD.
7 More- Received 29 October 2022
- Accepted 19 December 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.014013
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