Transverse momentum, factorization and the HERMES experiment

Abstract

I present some results about transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions. Firstly I illustrate a simple model, with predictive power about the energy behavior, for T-odd, chiral odd functions. Moreover I propose a slight modification in extracting transversity from HERMES data, so as to apply correctly factorization. Lastly I suggest a method for determining the quark transverse polarization in an unpolarized or spinless hadron.

Comments: Talk given at Praha-SPIN-2002 Conference