Gauge invariance, causality and gluonic poles

Abstract

We explore the electromagnetic gauge invariance of the hadron tensor of the Drell-Yan process with one transversely polarized hadron. The special role is played by the contour gauge for gluon fields. The prescription for the gluonic pole in the twist 3 correlator is related to causality property and compared with the prescriptions for exclusive hard processes. As a result of we get the extra contributions, which naively do not have an imaginary phase. The single spin asymmetry for the Drell-Yan process is enhanced by the factor of two.

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures; References and acknowledgements added.