Transversly Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions and the Collins Fragmentation Function

2016/08/08 by Leonard S. Kisslinger, Kisslinger, Leonard S., Ming X. Liu +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.00749

7 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2019/08/14 · arxiv updated 2019/08/16

Abstract

The Sivers Function is briefly reviewed and the Collins Fragmentation Function to produce a hadron from a polarized quark is defined. We estimate π⁺,π^- +X production, where X represents particles which are not detected, via proton collisions with a polarized proton target using the Collins Fragmentation Function derived using the gluon distribution functions for polarized p-p collisions at E=√(s)=200 GeV.

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