The nucleon structure is presently described by Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs), which generalise the collinear PDFs, adding partonic spin and transverse momentum degrees of freedom. The recent HERMES and COMPASS data on hadron production in deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) of leptons off transversely polarised nucleons have provided a decisive validation of this framework. Nevertheless, the TMD PDFs should be studied in complementary reactions, like pp hard scattering and Drell-Yan processes. In particular the Sivers TMD PDF, which encodes the correlation between the nucleon spin and quark transverse momentum and appears in the Sivers Transverse Spin Asymmetry (TSA), is expected to have opposite sign in DY and SIDIS. In 2015 COMPASS measured for the first time the Drell-Yan reaction pi- p↑ → mu- mu X to test this prediction and the results have been recently published. The main topic of the thesis is the first measurement of the TSAs weighted with the dimuon transverse momentum in this data. These asymmetries complement the conventional TSAs and their advantage is that they do not contain convolutions over intrinsic transverse momenta. My analysis work is described in detail and the results are compared with calculations based on the extraction of the Sivers function from the recently measured weighted Sivers asymmetry in SIDIS. The thesis also contains a theoretical introduction, the description of the apparatus focused on the polarised target and its monitoring system to which I contributed. Finally, a chapter dedicated to the first original analysis in my PhD, the measurement of a Sivers-like asymmetry in the J/psit production in SIDIS, which is related to the gluon Sivers function, is included as well.

Nucleon spin structure studies in Drell–Yan process at COMPASS / Matousek, Jan. - (2018 Mar 29).

Nucleon spin structure studies in Drell–Yan process at COMPASS

MATOUSEK, JAN
2018-03-29

Abstract

The nucleon structure is presently described by Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs), which generalise the collinear PDFs, adding partonic spin and transverse momentum degrees of freedom. The recent HERMES and COMPASS data on hadron production in deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) of leptons off transversely polarised nucleons have provided a decisive validation of this framework. Nevertheless, the TMD PDFs should be studied in complementary reactions, like pp hard scattering and Drell-Yan processes. In particular the Sivers TMD PDF, which encodes the correlation between the nucleon spin and quark transverse momentum and appears in the Sivers Transverse Spin Asymmetry (TSA), is expected to have opposite sign in DY and SIDIS. In 2015 COMPASS measured for the first time the Drell-Yan reaction pi- p↑ → mu- mu X to test this prediction and the results have been recently published. The main topic of the thesis is the first measurement of the TSAs weighted with the dimuon transverse momentum in this data. These asymmetries complement the conventional TSAs and their advantage is that they do not contain convolutions over intrinsic transverse momenta. My analysis work is described in detail and the results are compared with calculations based on the extraction of the Sivers function from the recently measured weighted Sivers asymmetry in SIDIS. The thesis also contains a theoretical introduction, the description of the apparatus focused on the polarised target and its monitoring system to which I contributed. Finally, a chapter dedicated to the first original analysis in my PhD, the measurement of a Sivers-like asymmetry in the J/psit production in SIDIS, which is related to the gluon Sivers function, is included as well.
29-mar-2018
MARTIN, ANNA
29
2015/2016
Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare
Università degli Studi di Trieste
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