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RHIC pp碰撞中极化胶子PDF的约束

Constraining the polarized gluon PDF in pp collisions at RHIC

Frank Ellinghaus

摘要:

PHENIX和STAR利用RHIC的极化质子束的物理计划的主要重点是弄清楚质子内部的胶子是如何极化的,或者换句话说,自旋1胶子更喜欢让它们的自旋与质子的自旋对齐还是反对齐,或者它们根本不在乎?这个问题是一个更一般的问题的重要组成部分,即质子、胶子和夸克的组成部分如何共同构成质子的总自旋1/2。例如,对喷流和强子的测量,在两个极化质子碰撞的自旋对齐和反对齐的两种情况下,产生截面的差异对胶子极化很敏感,胶子极化被编码在胶子的自旋相关部分子分布函数(PDF)中,Δ-g(x)。

英文摘要:

The main focus of the physics program at PHENIX and STAR that makes use of RHIC's polarized proton beams is to figure out how and if at all the gluons inside protons are polarized, or to put it another way, do the spin 1 gluons prefer to have their spins aligned or anti-aligned with the spin of the proton, or do they just not care? This question is an important part of the more general question of how the constituents of protons, gluons and quarks, conspire to make up the overall spin 1/2 of the proton. Measurements of, e.g, jet and hadron, production cross-section differences between the two cases where the two polarized protons colliding have their spins aligned and anti-aligned are sensitive to the gluon polarization, which is encoded in the spin--dependent parton distribution function (PDF) for gluons, Delta-g(x).

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