Mathews, P. ; Ramachandran, R. (1992) Large PT P-P collisions to probe the gluonic and sea spin distribution in the proton Zeitschrift für Physik C: Particles and Fields, 53 (2). pp. 305-310. ISSN 0170-9739
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Abstract
We parametrise the polarised gluon and sea distribution functions incorporating the interpretation of the EMC experiment that, due to the axial anomaly the observed quark contribution to proton spin Δ Σ' = Δ Σ - f αs/2π Δ g ≈ 0 at <Q2> =10.7 GeV2. Typical processes to isolate the gluonic and sea content of the proton studied here are the large PT direct photon production processes (a) using single polarized proton PP↑→ γ ↑ ↓ X and (b) polarized beam and target proton P↑ P↑↓→γ X. In both the above process the dominant contribution comes from the "Compton" subprocess and so can be used as a clean probe of the gluonic content of the proton. Large PT muon pair production P↑ P↑↓→ (μ +μ –)X are also studied and we find that the annihilation subprocess dominates, but not much larger than the "Compton" subprocess and so may not be a clean probe of the sea content of the proton. The effect of two loop corrections to the parametrisation and asymmetries are also considered, and are found to be negligible.
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