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Understanding hard interaction in QCD and the search for the gluon spin contribution to the spin of the proton
Abstract
In the following discourse unpolarized cross sections and double helicity asymmetries of single inclusive positive and negative charged hadrons at mid-rapidity from p + p collisions at [special characters omitted] = 62.4 GeV are presented. Measurements for the transverse momentum range 1.0 < pT < 4.5 GeV/c are done with PHENIX detector at Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and are consistent with calculations based on perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong coupling constant, α s. Resummed pQCD calculations including terms with next-to-leading log (NLL) accuracy, yielding reduced theoretical uncertainties, also agree with the data. The double helicity asymmetry, sensitive at leading order to the gluon polarization in a momentum fraction range of 0.05 [special characters omitted] xgluon [special characters omitted] 0.2, is consistent with recent global parameterizations disfavoring large gluon polarization.
Subject Area
Particle physics
Recommended Citation
Datta, Amaresh, "Understanding hard interaction in QCD and the search for the gluon spin contribution to the spin of the proton" (2012). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI3518222.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3518222