Longitudinal Spin Dependence of Massive Lepton Pair Production
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-17 v1
Abstract
We show that massive lepton-pair production, the Drell-Yan process, should be a good source of independent constraints on the polarized gluon density, free from the experimental and theoretical complications of photon isolation that beset studies of prompt photon production. We provide predictions for the spin-averaged and spin-dependent differential cross sections as a function of transverse momentum at energies relevant for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0001190,
title = {Longitudinal Spin Dependence of Massive Lepton Pair Production},
author = {Edmond L. Berger and Lionel E. Gordon and Michael Klasen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0001190},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
11 pages, latex, 5 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of the Circum-Pan-Pacific RIKEN Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, November 3 - 6, 1999, RIKEN Laboratory, Wako, Japan