The gluon density

Conference · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10117890

Berger, E L ^[1]; Meng, R ^[2]

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1. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
2. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)

In next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics, gluon-gluon interactions dominate the production of bottom quarks at hadron collider energies, and gluon-quark interactions control inclusive prompt photon production at large transverse momentum in pp collisions at fixed-target energies. Using such data, in conjunction with data from deep inelastic lepton scattering, we determine a new gluon density whose shape differs substantially from that derived from previous fits of data. The new set of parton densities provides a good fit to bottom quark, prompt photon, and deep inelastic data, including the most recent NMC and CCFR results.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10117890
• Report Number(s): ANL-HEP-CP--92-108; CERN-TH--6739/92; CONF-921122--17; ON: DE93005565
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING
DENSITY
GLUON-GLUON INTERACTIONS
GLUONS
HADRON INTERACTIONS
PARTONS
PROPERTIES OF OTHER PARTICLES INCLUDING HYPOTHETICAL PARTICLES
PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUARK-GLUON INTERACTIONS
TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM