Datta, Amaresh2024-04-262024-04-262011-11-18https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/8200We investigate hard interaction in QCD through the measurement of cross sections of mid-rapidity production of non-identified charged hadrons from $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 62.4$ GeV/$c$. Measurements are made in the transverse momentum range from 0.5 GeV/$c$ to 4.5 GeV/$c$ by the PHENIX collaboration at RHIC. The cross section results are consistent with predictions based on QCD calculations of next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy and shows better agreement with next-to-leading log QCD predictions. The double helicity asymmetry measurements of mid-rapidity non-identified charged hadrons in the stipulated transverse momentum range are sensitive at leading order to the polarization of gluons in a momentum fraction range $0.06 \leq x_{gluon} \leq 0.3$.NuclearPhysicsevent