Revisiting helicity parton distributions at a future electron-ion collider
Abstract
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.
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1756218
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1737435
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-220717-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 094018
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- de-sc0012704; SC0012704
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 102 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Borsa, Ignacio, Lucero, Gonzalo, Sassot, Rodolfo, Aschenauer, Elke C., and Nunes, Ana S. Revisiting helicity parton distributions at a future electron-ion collider. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094018.
Borsa, Ignacio, Lucero, Gonzalo, Sassot, Rodolfo, Aschenauer, Elke C., & Nunes, Ana S. Revisiting helicity parton distributions at a future electron-ion collider. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094018
Borsa, Ignacio, Lucero, Gonzalo, Sassot, Rodolfo, Aschenauer, Elke C., and Nunes, Ana S. Mon .
"Revisiting helicity parton distributions at a future electron-ion collider". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094018.
@article{osti_1756218,
title = {Revisiting helicity parton distributions at a future electron-ion collider},
author = {Borsa, Ignacio and Lucero, Gonzalo and Sassot, Rodolfo and Aschenauer, Elke C. and Nunes, Ana S.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094018},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 9,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {11}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.094018
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