Jet measurements in polarized p+p collisions at STAR at RHIC
Abstract
Jet production in polarized collisions at GeV and GeV provides a powerful probe to study gluons inside the proton. The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) has the capability, with nearly full azimuthal () coverage, to reconstruct jets at mid-rapidity (). The latest STAR inclusive jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry measured in 200 GeV collisions provides better constraints on the polarized gluon distribution for 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- algorithm provides potential insights into the unpolarized gluon distribution function, and the new inclusive jet measurement in 510 GeV collisions shows consistent scaling with the 200 GeV result. Future measurements with continuing high energy polarized proton-proton running at GeV at RHIC and detector upgrades in the forward direction will explore the gluonic contribution to the proton spin at low 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