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Title: Probing the Linear Polarization of Gluons in Unpolarized Hadrons at EIC

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OSTI ID:1022526

Gluons inside unpolarized hadrons can be linearly polarized provided they have a nonzero transverse momentum. The simplest and theoretically safest way to probe this TMD distribution of linearly polarized gluons is through cos 2{phi} asymmetries in heavy quark pair or dijet production in electron-hadron collisions. Future EIC or 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:
1022526
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-14359; TRN: US1104259
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented atGluons and the quark sea at high energies: distributions, polarization, tomography, INT Seattle, 9/13/2010-10/19/2010
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English