Estimate of the Collins fragmentation function in a chiral invariant approach

A. Bacchetta, R. Kundu, A. Metz, P.J.G. Mulders

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    Abstract

    We predict the features of the Collins function, which describes the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark into an unpolarized hadron, by modeling the fragmentation into pions at a low energy scale. We use the chiral invariant approach of Manohar and Georgi, where constituent quarks and Goldstone bosons are considered as effective degrees of freedom in the nonperturbative regime of QCD. To test the approach we calculate the unpolarized fragmentation function and the transverse momentum distribution of a produced hadron, both of which are described reasonably well. In the case of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, our estimate of the Collins function in connection with the transversity distribution gives rise to a transverse single spin asymmetry of the order of 10%, supporting the idea of measuring the transversity distribution of the nucleon in this way. In the case of e
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalPhysical Review D
    Volume65
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

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