First glances at the transversity parton distribution through dihadron fragmentation functions

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Jul 1;107(1):012001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.012001. Epub 2011 Jun 27.

Abstract

We present first observations of the transversity parton distribution based on an analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targets. The extraction of transversity relies on the knowledge of dihadron fragmentation functions, which we take from electron-positron annihilation measurements. This is the first attempt to determine the transversity distribution in the framework of collinear factorization.