Abstract. We study spin asymmetries in diffractive QQ and vector meson production which are sensitive to the spin-dependent part of the two-gluon-nucleon coupling. It is found that the A ll and A lT asymmetry in diffractive reactions can be used to study polarized gluon distributions of the proton.
I INTRODUCTIONInvestigation of the structure of hadrons, is a problem of considerable interest now. The inclusive reaction can be used to study ordinary parton distributions. However, it is difficult to distinguish events with a single outgoing proton or jet in a fixed target experiment like COMPASS [1]. In this case, at small x the diffractive events will contribute together with nondiffractive one. The measured asymmetry can be written in the formHereIt can be shown that the ratio R should increase with x → 0. The integrated over x R ratio has been found at HERA to be about 20-30% [2]. This means that diffractive events might be important in extraction of asymmetry at small x from experiment. The diffractive hadron photoproduction can be expressed in terms of skewed parton distribution (SPD) in the nucleon F ζ (x) [3]. Investigation of such diffractive reactions should play a keystone role in future study F x (x) at small x. In the diffractive charm quark production including J/Ψ reactions, the predominant contribution is determined by the two-gluon exchange (gluon SPD). Analysis of these reactions should throw light on the gluon structure of the proton at small x [4,5].To study spin effects in the diffractive hadron production, one must know the structure of the two-gluon coupling with the proton at small x. The QCD-inspired diquark model generates the spin-dependent ggp coupling [6] of the following form: