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Title: Accessing the Distribution of Linearly Polarized Gluons in Unpolarized Hadrons

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OSTI ID:1022462

Gluons inside unpolarized hadrons can be linearly polarized provided they have a nonzero transverse momentum. The simplest and theoretically safest way to probe this distribution of linearly polarized gluons is through cos2{phi} asymmetries in heavy quark pair or dijet production in electron-hadron collisions. Future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) or Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) experiments are ideally suited for this purpose. Here we estimate the maximum asymmetries for EIC kinematics.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1022462
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-14494; arXiv:1107.1400; TRN: US1104225
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at 19th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2011), Newport News, Virginia, 11-15 Apr 2011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English