4th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan
Volume 59, Number 10
Tuesday–Saturday, October 7–11, 2014;
Waikoloa, Hawaii
Session 2WJ: Polarized Drell-Yan Physics at Fermilab
2:00 PM–5:30 PM,
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Room: Kona 3
Chair: Toshi-Aki Shibata, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Abstract ID: BAPS.2014.HAW.2WJ.7
Abstract: 2WJ.00007 : Opportunities with polarized beam {\&} target
5:00 PM–5:30 PM
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Abstract
Author:
Yoshiyuki Miyachi
(Yamagata University)
Single spin asymmetries in Drell-Yan (DY) scattering, which are going to be
measured in the present and planned polarized DY experiments, gain further
insight into the internal structure of the nucleon. For the novel Sivers
distribution function, the possible sign change in DY and Semi-Inclusive
Deep-Inelastic-Scattering (SIDIS) may be confirmed for the first time, which
is a critical test of the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) factorization
in QCD, and precise information on the sea quarks, which are less sensitive
in DIS, will be obtained. Since DY is one of the cleanest hard scattering
processes, where no hadron fragmentation involved, it does not require
information on hadron fragmentation functions (FF) to extract TMD PDF from
the observed azimuthal amplitudes, where TMD PDF appears along with a
corresponding FF in the case of SIDIS. Various azimuthal amplitudes of
un-polarized cross section and singly-polarized or doubly-polarized cross
section asymmetries in SIDIS have been measured. Double spin asymmetry in DY
where beam and target are polarized is another unique tool to study TMD PDFs
directly and it is a complementary measurement to SIDIS toward the complete
description of the nucleon. Single spin asymmetries of the W-production
cross section in the polarized proton-proton collision, recently measured at
the RHIC/spin program, indicate the possible quark flavor symmetry violation
in the polarized light-sea. Similar flavor asymmetry in the un-polarized
light-sea, known as violation of the Gottfried sum rule, is currently
studied at the on-going DY experiment SeaQuest at Fermilab. The observed
flavor asymmetries can be a key to understand non-perturbative structure of
the nucleon. With double spin asymmetry measurements in longitudinally
polarized DY the flavor asymmetry in the polarized sea can be confirmed. In
the presentation, physics cases which can be studied in doubly polarized DY
and related topics will be discussed.
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