Single spin asymmetries in inclusive hadron production from semiinclusive DIS to hadronic collisions: Universality and phenomenology

In a perturbative QCD approach, with inclusion of spin and transverse momentum effects, experimental data on azimuthal asymmetries observed in polarized semiinclusive deeply inelastic scattering and e(+) e(-) annihilations can be used to determine the Sivers, transversity, and Collins soft functions. By using these functions, within the same scheme, we predict p(up arrow)p -> h + X single spin asymmetries in remarkable agreement with high energy experimental data.