The transverse structure of the nucleon (resolving the quark motion inside a nucleon) Mauro Anselmino, Torino University and INFN, JLab, December 15, 2006 the need for parton intrinsic motion transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions (TMD) spin and k ┴ : transverse Single Spin Asymmetries SSA in SIDIS Spin effects in unpolarized e + e – → h 1 h 2 X at BELLE what do we learn from TMD’s?
Plenty of theoretical and experimental evidence for transverse motion of partons within nucleons and of hadrons within fragmentation jets uncertainty principle gluon radiation ±1 ± ± k┴k┴ q T distribution of lepton pairs in D-Y processes Partonic intrinsic motion p p Q 2 = M 2 qTqT qLqL l+l+ l–l–
p T distribution of hadrons in SIDIS Hadron distribution in jets in e + e – processes Large p T particle production in Transverse motion is usually integrated, but there might be important spin- k ┴ correlations p xp k┴k┴
M. Arneodo et al (EMC): Z. Phys. C 34 (1987) 277 Intrinsic motion in unpolarized SIDIS, in collinear parton model thus, no dependence on azimuthal angle Ф h at zero-th order in pQCD the experimental data reveal that
Cahn: the observed azimuthal dependence is related to the intrinsic k ┴ of quarks (at least for small P T values) These modulations of the cross section with azimuthal angle are denoted as “Cahn effect”. assuming collinear fragmentation, φ = Φ h
SIDIS with intrinsic k ┴ kinematics according to Trento conventions (2004) factorization holds at large Q 2, and Ji, Ma, Yuan
The full kinematics is complicated as the produced hadron has also intrinsic transverse momentum with respect to the fragmenting parton neglecting terms of order one has
assuming: one finds: with clear dependence on(assumed to be constant) and Find best values by fitting data on Φ h and P T dependences
EMC data, µp and µd, E between 100 and 280 GeV M.A., M. Boglione, U. D’Alesio, A. Kotzinian, F. Murgia and A. Prokudin
Large P T data explained by NLO QCD corrections
dashed line: parton model with unintegrated distribution and fragmentation functions solid line: pQCD contributions at LO and a K factor (K = 1.5) to account for NLO effects
S p p'p' – p PTPT θ – p ' 5 independent helicity amplitudes z y x Example: Transverse single spin asymmetries: elastic scattering
needs helicity flip + relative phase – x at quark level but large SSA observed at hadron level! QED and QCD interactions conserve helicity, up to corrections Single spin asymmetries at partonic level. Example:
BNL-AGS √s = 6.6 GeV 0.6 < p T < 1.2 E704 √s = 20 GeV 0.7 < p T < 2.0 experimental data on SSA observed transverse Single Spin Asymmetries
and A N stays at high energies …. STAR-RHIC √s = 200 GeV 1.2 < p T < 2.8
PDF FF pQCD elementary interactions a b c X X (collinear configurations) factorization theorem
RHIC data
Transverse Λ polarization in unpolarized p-Be scattering at Fermilab
“Sivers moment”
“Collins moment”
and now ….? Polarization data has often been the graveyard of fashionable theories. If theorists had their way, they might just ban such measurements altogether out of self-protection. J.D. Bjorken St. Croix, 1987
needs k ┴ dependent quark distribution in p ↑ and/or p ┴ dependent fragmentation of polarized quark z y x ΦSΦS ΦπΦπ X p S PTPT Transverse single spin asymmetries in SIDIS in collinear configurations there cannot be (at LO) any P T
spin-k ┴ correlations? orbiting quarks? Transverse Momentum Dependent distribution functions Space dependent distribution functions (GPD) ?
p S k┴k┴ φ q pqpq φ SqSq p┴p┴ Amsterdam group notations spin-k ┴ correlations Sivers functionCollins function
p SqSq k┴k┴ φ q pqpq φ SΛSΛ p┴p┴ Amsterdam group notations spin-k ┴ correlations Boer-Mulders function polarizing F.F.
8 leading-twist spin-k ┴ dependent distribution functions Courtesy of Aram Kotzinian
Sivers function dependence on S T in cross section The Sivers mechanism for SSA in SIDIS processes
Sivers angle SSA: after integration over k ┴ one obtains:
data are presented for the sinΦ moment of the analyzing power
Parameterization of the Sivers function q = u, d. The Sivers function for sea quarks and antiquarks is assumed to be zero.
M.A., U.D’Alesio, M.Boglione, F. Murgia, A.Kotzinian, A Prokudin from Sivers mechanism
Deuteron target
First p ┴ moments of extracted Sivers functions, compared with models M.A, M. Boglione, U. D’Alesio, A. Kotzinian, F. Murgia, A. Prokudin data from HERMES and COMPASS hep-ph/
The first and 1/2-transverse moments of the Sivers quark distribution functions. The fits were constrained mainly (or solely) by the preliminary HERMES data in the indicated x-range. The curves indicate the 1-σ regions of the various parameterizations. M. Anselmino, M. Boglione, J.C. Collins, U. D’Alesio, A.V. Efremov, K. Goeke, A. Kotzinian, S. Menze, A. Metz, F. Murgia, A. Prokudin, P. Schweitzer, W. Vogelsang, F. Yuan
predictions for JLab, proton target, 6 GeV 0.4 ≤ z h ≤ ≤ P T ≤ 1 GeV/c 0.1 ≤ x B ≤ ≤ y ≤ 0.85 Q 2 ≥ 1 (GeV/c) 2 W 2 ≥ 4 GeV 2 1 ≤ E h ≤ 4 GeV
predictions for JLab, proton target, 12 GeV 0.4 ≤ z h ≤ ≤ P T ≤ 1.4 GeV/c 0.05 ≤ x B ≤ ≤ y ≤ 0.85 Q 2 ≥ 1 (GeV/c) 2 W 2 ≥ 4 GeV 2 1 ≤ E h ≤ 7 GeV
S number density of partons with longitudinal momentum fraction x and transverse momentum k ┴, inside a proton with spin S M. Burkardt, PR D69, (2004) What do we learn from the Sivers distribution?
Then we can compute the total amount of intrinsic momentum carried by partons of flavour a for a proton moving along the +z-axis and polarization vector S
Sivers functions extracted from A N data in give also opposite results, with Numerical estimates from SIDIS data U. D’Alesio
Collins mechanism for SSA q q’ initial quark transverse spin is transmitted to the final quark (in collinear configuration, here ↑,↓ means perpendicular to the leptonic plane)
The polarization of the fragmenting quark q' can be computed in QED depolarization factor
Collins effect in SIDIS transversity distribution
fit to HERMES data on assuming W. Vogelsang and F. Yuan Phys. Rev. D72, (2005)
A. V. Efremov, K. Goeke and P. Schweitzer (h 1 from quark-soliton model)
Collins function from e + e – processes (spin effects without polarization) e + e - CMS frame: KEK e+e+ e-e- e+e+ thrust-axis
single quark or antiquark are not polarized, but there is a strong correlation between their spins cross section for detecting the final hadrons inside the jets contains the product of two Collins functions
Cosine modulations clearly visible M. Grosse Perdekamp, A. Ogawa, R. Seidl Talk at SPIN2006 BELLE data
U = unlike charged pions L = like charged pions
fit of HERMES data on Collins functions and transversity distributions from a global best fit of HERMES, COMPASS and BELLE data M.A., M. Boglione, U.D’Alesio, A.Kotzinian, F. Murgia, A Prokudin, C. Türk, in preparation
fit of COMPASS data on
fit of BELLE data on
Extracted favoured and unfavoured Collins functions positivity bound Efremov et al. Vogelsang, Yuan
Extracted transversity distributions Soffer bound
Predictions for Collins asymmetry at JLab, proton target, 6 GeV
Predictions for Collins asymmetry at JLab, proton target, 12 GeV
Sivers function and orbital angular momentum Sivers mechanism originates from then it is related to the quark orbital angular momentum D. Sivers For a proton moving along z and polarized along y Open issues and wild ideas …
Sivers function and proton anomalous magnetic momentum M. Burkardt, S. Brodsky, Z. Lu, I. Schmidt Both the Sivers function and the proton anomalous magnetic moment are related to correlations of proton wave functions with opposite helicities in qualitative agreement with large z data:
Conclusions Towards the transverse spin and momentum structure of the nucleon via azimuthal and P hT dependence in SIDIS Information on quark intrinsic motion Spin-k ┴ correlation from Sivers function Orbiting quarks? Extracting Collins function and accessing transversity Much more data needed …