New insight on the Sivers transverse momentum dependent distribution function

TLDR: In this paper, the Sivers distribution is extracted from the most recent experimental data of HERMES and COMPASS experiments, and a simple fitting strategy is used to explore the role of the proton sea quarks.

Abstract: Polarised Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) processes, l(Sl)p(S) → l h X allow to study Transverse Momentum Dependent partonic distributions (TMDs), which reveal a non trivial three dimensional internal structure of the hadrons in momentum space. One of the most representative of the TMDs is the so-called Sivers function that describes the distribution of unpolarized quarks inside a transversely polarized proton. We present a novel extraction of the Sivers distribution functions from the most recent experimental data of HERMES and COMPASS experiments. Using suitable parametrizations, within the TMD factorization scheme, and a simple fitting strategy, we also perform a preliminary exploration of the role of the proton sea quarks.