Speaker
Alessandra Filippi
(INFN Torino)
Description
Inclusive hadron production cross sections and angular distributions in
e+e- collisions shed light on fundamental questions of hadronization and fragmentation processes. We present measurements of the Collins azimuthal asymmetries in inclusive production of hadron pairs, in the e+e- -> h1 h2 X annihilation process, where the hadrons (either kaons or pions) are produced in opposite hemispheres.
The data collected by the BABAR detector allow the determination of the Collins fragmentation function as a function of hadron fractional energies and transverse momenta for the up, down and strange quarks. These data can be combined with semi-inclusive deep-inelastic-scattering data to extract the transversity distribution function, which is the least known leading-twist component of the QCD description of the partonic structure of the nucleon.
Primary author
Alessandra Filippi
(INFN Torino)
