Single spin asymmetries in muon pair production

Conference · Sat Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 1991 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:5219555

Carlitz, R D; Willey, R S ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)

Theoretical analyses of polarized leptoproduction data suggest that the polarized gluon structure function might be large, but there has been no independent measurement of this quantity. Measurements of single spin asymmetries in the production of muon pairs from the scattering of two protons, one of which is longitudinally polarized, can be interpreted in terms of polarized gluon and polarized quark structure functions. Here we compute the asymmetries for the parton subprocesses that contribute to the measured muon pair production.

• OSTI ID: 5219555
• Report Number(s): CONF-9011177-; CODEN: APCPC
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 223:1; Conference: Polarized collider workshop, University Park, PA (United States), 15-17 Nov 1990; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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SPIN
PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
POLARIZED BEAMS
EMC EFFECT
GLUONS
LEPTONS
PARTONS
STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
BEAMS
BOSONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FUNCTIONS
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
INTERACTIONS
NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
POSTULATED PARTICLES
PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
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