TY - JOUR
T1 - Model independent analysis of gluonic pole matrix elements and universality of transverse-momentum-dependent fragmentation functions
AU - Gamberg, L. P.
AU - Mukherjee, A.
AU - Mulders, P. J.
PY - 2011/4/15
Y1 - 2011/4/15
N2 - Gluonic pole matrix elements explain the appearance of single spin asymmetries (SSA) in high-energy scattering processes. They involve a combination of operators which are odd under time reversal (T-odd). Such matrix elements appear in principle both for parton distribution functions and parton fragmentation functions. We show that for parton fragmentation functions, these gluonic pole matrix elements vanish as a consequence of the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics. This result is important in the study of the universality of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation functions.
AB - Gluonic pole matrix elements explain the appearance of single spin asymmetries (SSA) in high-energy scattering processes. They involve a combination of operators which are odd under time reversal (T-odd). Such matrix elements appear in principle both for parton distribution functions and parton fragmentation functions. We show that for parton fragmentation functions, these gluonic pole matrix elements vanish as a consequence of the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics. This result is important in the study of the universality of transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) fragmentation functions.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.071503
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.071503
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960826647
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 83
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 7
M1 - 071503
ER -