Asymmetric azimuthal distribution of hadrons inside a jet from hadron-hadron collisions.
We study the azimuthal asymmetric distribution of hadrons inside a high energy jet in the single-transverse polarized nucleon-nucleon scattering, coming from the Collins effect multiplied by the quark transversity distribution. We argue that the Collins function in this process is the same as that in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. The experimental study of this process will provide us with important information on the quark transversity distribution and test the universality of the fragmentation functions.
Yuan
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Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.