Transversity and Collins Fragmentation Functions: Towards a New Global Analysis

preprint2008arXivOpen access

Abstract

A new, preliminary global analysis of the experimental data on azimuthal asymmetries in SIDIS from HERMES and COMPASS collaborations, and in e+e- --> h_1 h_2 X processes from the BELLE collaboration, is performed. The new data allow for a more precise determination of the Collins fragmentation function and of the transversity distribution function for uu and dd quarks, in comparison with the results of our previous analysis. Estimates for the single spin asymmetry A_UT^{\sin(ϕ_h + ϕ_S)} at JLab and COMPASS, operating on a transversely polarized proton target, are presented.

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