scholarly journals Measuring the gluon spin contribution to the proton spin in polarized p+p collisions with the PHENIX experiment

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itaru Nakagawa
2010 ◽  
Vol 207-208 ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Firooz Arash ◽  
Abolfazl Shahveh ◽  
Fateme Taghavi-Shahri

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1460033 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERND SURROW

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is carrying out a spin physics program in high-energy polarized proton collisions at [Formula: see text] GeV and [Formula: see text] GeV to gain a deeper insight into the spin structure and dynamics of the proton. One of the main objectives of the spin physics program at RHIC is the precise determination of the polarized gluon distribution function. The STAR detector is well suited for the reconstruction of various final states involving jets, π0, π±, e± and γ, which allows to measure several different processes. Recent results suggest a gluon spin contribution to the proton spin at the same level as the quark spin contribution itself. The production of W bosons in polarized p+p collisions at [Formula: see text] GeV opens a new era in the study of the spin-flavor structure of the proton. W-(+) bosons are produced in [Formula: see text] collisions and can be detected through their leptonic decays, [Formula: see text], where only the respective charged lepton is measured. Results of W-(+) production suggest a large asymmetry between the polarization of anti-u and anti-d quarks.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (29) ◽  
pp. 5109-5181 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAI-YANG CHENG

The proton spin problem triggered by the EMC experiment and its present status are closely examined. Recent experimental and theoretical progresses and their implications are reviewed. It is pointed out that the sign of the sea quark polarization generated perturbatively by hard gluons via the anomaly mechanism is predictable. It is negative if the gluon spin component is positive. We stress that the polarized nucleon structure function g1(x) is independent of the k⊥ factorization scheme chosen in defining the quark spin density and the hard photon–gluon scattering cross-section. Consequently, the anomalous gluon and sea quark interpretations for Γ1, the first moment of g1(x), are equivalent. It is the axial anomaly that accounts for the observed suppression of [Formula: see text].


1983 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1179-1184 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Vilfan ◽  
R. Blinc ◽  
J. Dolinšek ◽  
M. Ipavec ◽  
G. Lahajnar ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-65
Author(s):  
Xiangdong Ji ◽  
Feng Yuan ◽  
Yong Zhao
Keyword(s):  

1998 ◽  
Vol 431 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 405-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Barone ◽  
T. Calarco ◽  
A. Drago
Keyword(s):  

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