Soffer’s inequality and the transversely polarized Drell-Yan process at next-to-leading order

1 March 1998

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 57 (5) , 3084-3090
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.57.3084

Abstract

We check numerically if Soffer’s inequality for quark distributions is preserved by next-to-leading order QCD evolution. Assuming that the inequality is saturated at a low hadronic scale, we estimate the maximal transverse double-spin asymmetry for Drell-Yan muon pair production to next-to-leading-order accuracy.

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