0 Spin effects in the fragmentation of transversely polarized and unpolarized quarks ∗

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  • F. Murgia
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We study the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark into a non collinear (k⊥ 6= 0) spinless hadron and the fragmentation of an unpolarized quark into a non collinear transversely polarized spin 1/2 baryon. These nonperturbative properties are described by spin and k⊥ dependent fragmentation functions and are revealed in the observation of single spin asymmetries. Recent data on the production of pions in polarized semi-inclusive DIS and long known data on Λ polarization in unpolarized p–N processes are considered: these new fragmentation functions can describe the experimental results and the single spin effects in the quark fragmentation turn out to be surprisingly large.

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تاریخ انتشار 2000