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photon+jet event rate estimation for the gluon distribution determination at the Tevatron Run II

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Since a lot of theoretical predictions on the production of new particles (Higgs, SUSY) at the Tevatron are based on model estimations of the proton gluon density behavior at low xx and high values of a transfered momentum Q^2, the study of a possibility of a measurement of the gluon density in this kinematic region directly in Tevatron experiments is obviously of a big interest [1]. Basing on the selection criteria proposed ealier in [1,2], the background events suppression factors and corresponding signal events selection efficiencies are determined here. The estimation of the number of photon+jet events suitable for measurement of gluon distribution in different x and Q^2 intervals at Tevatron Run II is also done. It is shown that with integrated luminosity L_{int}=3 fb^-1 it would be possible to collect about one million of these events. This number would allow to cover a new kinematical region, 10^-3 < x < 1.0 with 1.6*10^3 < Q^2 < 2*10^4 (GeV/c)^2, not studied in any previous experiment. This area includes the values of Q^2 that are, on the average, by about one order of magnitude higher than those reached at HERA now. The rates of g c-> photon + jet events are also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0206040,
  title  = {photon+jet event rate estimation for the gluon distribution determination at the Tevatron Run II},
  author = {D. V. Bandurin and N. B. Skachkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0206040},
  year   = {2007}
}

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