PROBING POLARIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS WITH MESON PHOTOPRODUCTION

Authors
AFANASEV A CARLSON CE WAHLQUIST C
Citation
A. Afanasev et al., PROBING POLARIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS WITH MESON PHOTOPRODUCTION, Physics letters. Section B, 398(3-4), 1997, pp. 393-399
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
398
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
393 - 399
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1997)398:3-4<393:PPPDWM>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Polarization asymmetries in photoproduction of high transverse momentu m mesons are a flavor sensitive way to measure the polarized quark dis tributions. We calculate the expected asymmetries in several models, a nd find that the asymmetries are significant and also significantly di fferent from model to model, Suitable data may come as a by-product of deep inelastic experiments to measure g(1) or from dedicated experime nts. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.