Azimuthal asymmetries and Collins analyzing power.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 2 0 6 2 6 7 v 1 2 6 J u n 2 0 0 2 Azimuthal asymmetries and Collins analyzing power ? A. V. Efremova, K. Goekeb and P. Schweitzerc a Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980 Russia b Institute for Theoretical Physics II, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany c Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Universita? di Pavia, Italy RUB-TP2-10-02 Abstract Spin azimuthal asymmetries in pion electro-production in deep inelastic scat- tering off longitudinally polarized protons, measured by HERMES, are well reproduced theoretically with no adjustable parameters. Predictions for az- imuthal asymmetries for a longitudinally polarized deuteron target are given. The z-dependence of the Collins fragmentation function is extracted. The first information on e(x) is extracted from CLAS ALU asymmetry. 1 Introduction Recently azimuthal asymmetries have been observed in pion electro-production in semi inclusive deep-inelastic scattering off longitudinally (with respect to the beam) [1, 2] and transversely polarized protons [3]. These asymmetries contain informa- tion on the T-odd “Collins” fragmentation function H⊥a1 (z) and on the transversity distribution ha1(x) [4] 1. H⊥a1 (z) describes the left-right asymmetry in fragmentation of transversely polarized quarks into a hadron [5, 6, 7] (the ”Collins asymmetry”), and ha1(x) describes the distribution of transversely polarized quarks in nucleon [4]. Both H⊥a1 (z) and h a 1(x) are twist-2, chirally odd, and not known experimentally. Only recently experimental indications to H⊥1 in e +e?-annihilation have appeared [8], while the HERMES and SMC data [1, 2, 3] provide first experimental indications to ha1(x). Here we explain the observed azimuthal asymmetries [1, 2] and predict pion and kaon asymmetries from a deuteron target for HERMES by using information on H⊥1 from DELPHI [8] and the predictions for the transversity distribution ha1(x) from the chiral quark-soliton model (χQSM) [9]. Our analysis