$A_N$ in inclusive lepton-proton collisions: TMD and twist-3 approaches

Abstract

We consider the inclusive production of hadrons in lepton-nucleon scattering. For a transversely polarized nucleon this reaction shows a left-right azimuthal asymmetry, which we compute this asymmetry in both TMD and in twist-3 collinear factorization formalisms. All non-perturbative parton correlators of the calculation are fixed through information from other hard processes. Our results for the left-right asymmetry agree in sign with recent data for charged pion production from the HERMES Collaboration and from Jefferson Lab. We discuss similarities and differences of two formalisms.

6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the TRANSVERSITY 2014, Chia, Italy, 9-13 June, 2014