time-reversal-odd asymmetry in lepton-photon scattering in perturbative quantum chromodynamics

Abstract

Time-reversal-odd asymmetry of hadrons produced in deep-inelastic lepton-photon scattering is calculated in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. The dependence of the asymmetry on the target, the differential variable, and some other factors is studied in a reasonably simplified model. Lepton-photon scattering provides some interesting features qualitatively different from those in lepton-nucleon scattering.