ALT in the polarized Drell-Yan process at RHIC and HERA energies
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We present a leading order (LO) estimate for the longitidinal-transverse spin asymmetry (ALT ) in the nucleon-nucleon polarized Drell-Yan process at RHIC and HERA~ N energies in comparison with ALL and ATT . ALT receives contribution from g1, the transversity distribution h1, and the twist-3 distributions gT and hL. For the twist-3 contribution we use the bag model prediction evolved to a high energy scale by the large-Nc evolution equation. We found that ALT (normalized by the asymmetry in the parton level) is much smaller than the corresponding ATT . Twist-3 contribution given by the bag model also turned out to be negligible. PACS numbers: 13.85.Qk, 13.88.+e, 12.39.Ba [keywords: Drell-Yan, longitudinal-transverse spin asymmetry, chiral-odd distribution, twist-
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