A partonic description of the transverse target single-spin asymmetry in inclusive DIS

Abstract

The single-spin asymmetry of unpolarized leptons scattering deep-inelastically off transversely polarized nucleons is studied in a partonic picture within a collinear twist-3 framework. Since this observable is generated by multi-photon exchanges between lepton and nucleon a partonic description of the asymmetry contains essential elements of a full next-to-leading order calculation for single-spin asymmetries in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. In particular it is shown how nontrivial cancellations between kinematical and dynamical twist-3 contributions lead to a well-behaved and finite formula. This final result can be expressed in terms of multipartonic quark-gluon and quark-photon correlation functions. Hence, a measurement of the transverse target single-spin asymmetry may provide new constraints on these multipartonic correlations.

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