Published August 26, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Uncertainty of polarized gluon distribution from prompt photon production

Creators

  • 1. Radiation Laboratory, RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)

Description

Constraint of prompt photon data on the polarized gluon distribution is discussed in terms of uncertainty estimation for polarized parton distribution functions (PDFs). By comparing uncertainty of the double spin asymmetry ALLγ with expected statistical errors at RHIC, we found that the gluon distribution is effectively constrained in the region 0.04xT0.2 with the data at transverse momentum pT=10-20 GeV for center-of-mass energies s=200 and 500 GeV

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.102;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0404279v2;
PII
S0370-2693(04)01004-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
596
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 287-292
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.