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Title: Revisiting helicity parton distributions at a future electron-ion collider

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

We studied the impact of future electron ion collider inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic scattering data will have on the determination of the helicity parton distributions. Supplementing the Monte Carlo sampling variant of the DSSV14 analysis with pseudodata on polarized inclusive and semi-inclusive electron-proton deep inelastic scattering with updated uncertainty estimates and for two different center-of-mass-system energies, √s = 44.7 GeV and √s = 141.4 GeV, respectively, and on inclusive electron-helium collisions at √s = 115.2 GeV, we find a remarkable improvement in the determination of the helicity distributions, especially at low parton momentum fraction x . While inclusive electron-proton data at the lowest energy configuration constrain significantly the gluon polarization down to x ~ 10–4, the higher energy configuration strengthens the constraint and extends it one decade further. On the other hand, semi-inclusive data achieves the hitherto elusive flavor separation for sea quarks that cannot be obtained from any other inclusive electromagnetic measurement. Collisions with helium complement inclusive proton measurements, pushing the constraints on the combined quark plus antiquark u, d and s polarizations to an unprecedented level.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
de-sc0012704; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1756218
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1737435
Report Number(s):
BNL-220717-2020-JAAM; PRVDAQ; 094018
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 102 Journal Issue: 9; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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