Measuring the Gluon Helicity Difference Distribution Function of the Proton using Photoproduction Processes

1993/10/26 by S. Keller, Keller, S.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9310351

talk given at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Marseille, July 22--28 1993. Latex, 5 pages + 2 postscript figures encoded with uufile, FSU-HEP-931026. A postscript file with text and embedded figures is available via anonymous ftp at hepsg1.physics.fsu.edu, file is /pub/keller/fsu-hep-931026.ps

Abstract

Little information is known about the polarization of gluons inside a longitudinally polarized proton. I report on the sensitivity of photoproduction experiments to it. Both jet and heavy quark production are considered.

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