Double spin asymmetry ALT in direct photon production

Zuo-Tang Liang, Andreas Metz, Daniel Pitonyak, Andreas Schäfer, Yu-Kun Song, Jian Zhou
2012 Physics Letters B  
We study the longitudinal-transverse double spin asymmetry A_LT for direct photon production in nucleon-nucleon scattering by using the collinear twist-3 approach. This asymmetry, which, for instance, could be measured at RHIC, contains a complete set of collinear twist-3 correlation functions in a transversely polarized nucleon.
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.04.072 fatcat:nywbjoypqrantonqg6otbwyrma