Could the gluon contribution to the proton spin be probed?

1998/08/31 by Rafel Escribano, R. Escribano, Escribano, R.
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9808495

6 pages. Talk given at the Quarks'98 conference in Suzdal, Russia, May 1998

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Abstract

Central pseudoscalar production in pp scattering is suppressed at small values of Q_⊥. Such a behavior is expected if the production occurs through the fusion of two vectors. We argue that an extension of the experiment could probe the gluon contribution to the proton spin.

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