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Theory Center Seminar<br>
Monday, June 20, 2011<br>
1:00 p.m. (coffee at 12:45 p.m.)<br>
CEBAF Center, Room L104<br>
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Asmita Mukherjee<br>
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai<br>
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<b>Gluonic Pole Matrix Elements and Universality of Fragmentation
Functions</b><br>
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Gluonic pole matrix elements explain the appearance of single spin
asymmetries (SSA) in high-energy<br>
scattering processes. They involve a combination of operators which are
odd under time reversal (T-odd). <br>
Such matrix elements appear in principle both for parton distribution
functions and parton fragmentation<br>
functions. We show first in a model calculation and then in a model
independent manner that for parton<br>
fragmentation functions these gluonic pole matrix elements vanish. This
result is important in the study<br>
of the universality of transverse momentum dependent fragmentation
functions.
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