Suppression of contributions from large-parton-number Fok states to T-odd distribution functions in Drell-Yan scattering involving small-x annihilating quark and antiquark

Abstract

T-odd distributions like Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions are normally modeled using few-body models. In the present work I want to follow the completely opposite point of view, and study a high-energy proton-proton Drell-Yan where both the annihilating partons are wee, and one (at least) comes from a high-order Fok state of the parent proton, i.e. a state where a large number N of partons is present. I show that rescattering between active and spectator partons is modified, with suppression of those terms that are needed to build T-odd parton distributions.

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures