Nucleon Spin Structure and Large p_T Processes at pp Colliders

1998/11/04 by L. E. Gordon, Gordon, L. E.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9811244

Talk presented at SPIN98 symposium, Protvino, Russia, September 8-12, 1998. 2 pages, 3 figures. Uses epsf

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Abstract

QCD motivated polarized parton distributions, evolved directly in x-space, are used to predict rates for prompt photon production at RHIC centre of mass energies. Various scenarios for the polarized gluon distributions are considered and compared, and the possibility of using large p_T processes in polarized pp collision experiments to choose between them is analyzed.

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