Speaker
Dr
Liang Zheng
(China University of Geosciences (Wuhan))
Description
In this work, we present a systematic study on the feasibility of probing the
largely unexplored transverse momentum dependent gluon Sivers function (GSF) in
open charm production, high p$_T$ charged di-hadron and di-jet production at a future high energy, high luminosity Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The Sivers function is a measure for the anisotropy of the parton distributions in momentum space inside a
transversely polarized nucleon. It is proposed that it can be studied through
single spin asymmetries in the photon-gluon fusion subprocess in electron proton
collisions at the EIC. Using a well tuned Monte Carlo model for deep inelastic
scattering, we estimate the possible constraints of the GSF
from the future EIC data. A comparison of all the accessible measurements
illustrates that the di-jet channel is the most promising way to constrain the
magnitude of the GSF over a wide kinematic range.
Primary author
Dr
Liang Zheng
(China University of Geosciences (Wuhan))
Co-authors
Prof.
Bo-wen Xiao
(Central China Normal University)
Dr
Elke-Caroline Aschenauer
(BNL)
Dr
J.H. Lee
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Prof.
Zhong-bao Yin
(Central China Normal University)
