Assessing signals of TMD physics in SIDIS azimuthal asymmetries and in the extraction of the Sivers function

Abstract

Abstract New data on the Sivers azimuthal asymmetry measured in semi-inclusive deepinelastic scattering processes have recently been released by the COMPASS Collaboration at CERN. Their increased precision and their particular binning, in terms of Q 2 as well as x, motivates a new extraction of the Sivers function, within the framework of a simple and transparent parametrization. Signals of TMD effects visible in the Sivers asymmetries are critically assessed. A thorough study of the uncertainties affecting the extracted Sivers function is presented, including the low- and large-x regions.

Keywords

• Deep Inelastic Scattering (Phenomenology)
• Phenomenological Models