HADRONIC COLLIDERS AS PROBES OF THE PROTON SPIN STRUCTURE

Authors
CHIAPPETTA P COLANGELO P GUILLET JP NARDULLI G
Citation
P. Chiappetta et al., HADRONIC COLLIDERS AS PROBES OF THE PROTON SPIN STRUCTURE, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 59(4), 1993, pp. 629-639
Citations number
62
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields → ACNP
ISSN journal
01709739
Volume
59
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
629 - 639
Database
ISI
SICI code
0170-9739(1993)59:4<629:HCAPOT>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We perform a systematic analysis of different processes with high ener gy polarized proton beams: jets, direct photon, lepton pairs (Drell-Ya n) and WZ production. Different sets of polarized partonic densities a re used that fit EMC and SLAC polarized deep inelastic scattering data with variable amount of quark and gluon components of the proton spin . The case of the future Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) used a s a polarized collider at a maximum energy of square-root s = 500 GeV is analyzed in detail.