Direct- and Resolved-Photon Threshold Resummation for Polarized High-pT Hadron Production at COMPASS
Abstract
We complete our earlier study of the "direct" part of the cross section and spin asymmetry for the photoproduction process γ N→ h X by analysing the "resolved" contribution, for which the photon couples like a hadron through its parton structure. The incident photon and nucleon are longitudinally polarized and one observes a hadron h at high transverse momentum pT. Soft or collinear gluon emissions generate large logarithmic threshold corrections which we resum to next-to-leading logarithmic order. We compare our results with recent spin asymmetry data by the COMPASS collaboration, highlighting the role of the fragmentation functions.
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