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Jet measurements in polarized p+p collisions at STAR at RHIC

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-09-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Jet production in polarized p+pp+p collisions at s=200\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV and s=500\sqrt{s} = 500 GeV provides a powerful probe to study gluons inside the proton. The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) has the capability, with nearly full azimuthal (2π2\pi) coverage, to reconstruct jets at mid-rapidity (η<1|\eta| < 1). The latest STAR inclusive jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry ALLA_{LL} measured in 200 GeV p+pp+p collisions provides better constraints on the polarized gluon distribution Δg(x)\Delta g(x) for 0.05<x<0.20.05<x<0.2 than previous measurements. A recent global QCD fit (DSSV 2014) which includes the 2009 RHIC results provides the first evidence of non-zero gluon contribution to the proton spin. A new inclusive jet cross section using the anti-kTk_{T} algorithm provides potential insights into the unpolarized gluon distribution function, and the new inclusive jet ALLA_{LL} measurement in 510 GeV p+pp+p collisions shows consistent xTx_{T} scaling with the 200 GeV result. Future measurements with continuing high energy polarized proton-proton running at s=500\sqrt{s} = 500 GeV at RHIC and detector upgrades in the forward direction will explore the gluonic contribution to the proton spin at low xx region.

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@article{arxiv.1506.06314,
  title  = {Jet measurements in polarized p+p collisions at STAR at RHIC},
  author = {Xuan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06314},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at the XXIII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, April 27 - May 1, 2015, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA. To be submitted to the PoS as the DIS2015 conference proceeding