Final State Interactions and the Transverse Structure of the Pion

Abstract

In the factorized picture of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering the naive time reversal-odd parton distributions exist by virtue of the gauge link which is intrinsic to their definition. The link structure describes initial/final-state interactions of the active parton due to soft gluon exchanges with the target remnant. Though these interactions are non-perturbative, calculations of final-state interaction have been performed in a perturbative one-gluon approximation. We include higher-order contributions by applying non-perturbative eikonal methods to calculate the Boer-Mulders function of the pion. Using this framework we explore under what conditions the Boer-Mulders function can be described in terms of factorization of final state interactions and a spatial distortion.

13 pages, 5 figures; Proceedings of the workshop, "Recent Advances in Perturbative QCD and Hadronic Physics" ECT*, Trento (Italy), in Honor of Anatoli V. Efremov on the occasion of his 75th Birthday, to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A

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