We study the single transverse-spin asymmetry for open charm production in the semi-inclusive lepton-hadron deep inelastic scattering. We calculate the asymmetry in terms of the QCD collinear factorization approach for D mesons at high enough P_h⊥ and find that the asymmetry is proportional to the twist-three trigluon correlation function in the proton. With a simple model for the trigluon correlation function, we estimate the asymmetry for both COMPASS and eRHIC kinematics and discuss the possibilities of extracting the trigluon correlation function in these experiments.
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