A. Afanasev et al., MEASURING POLARIZED GLUON AND QUARK DISTRIBUTIONS WITH MESON PHOTOPRODUCTION - ART. NO. 054007, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 5805(5), 1998, pp. 4007
We calculate polarization asymmetries in the photoproduction of high t
ransverse momentum mesons, focusing on charged pions, considering the
direct, fragmentation, and resolved photon processes. The results at v
ery high meson momentum measure the polarized quark distributions and
are sensitive to differences among the existing models. The results at
moderate meson momentum are sensitive to the polarized gluon distribu
tion and can provide a good way to measure it. Suitable data may come
as a by-product of deep inelastic experiments to measure g(1) or from
dedicated experiments. [S0556-2821(98)05015-2].