Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-09-20
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 014014
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
34 pages, RevTeX including 17 figures in .ps files
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.014014
We calculate the transverse momentum distribution for the production of massive lepton-pairs in longitudinally polarized proton-proton reactions at collider energies within the context of perturbative quantum chromodynamics. For values of the transverse momentum Q_T greater than roughly half the pair mass Q, Q_T > Q/2, we show that the differential cross section is dominated by subprocesses initiated by incident gluons, provided that the polarized gluon density is not too small. Massive lepton-pair differential cross sections 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 Q_T at energies relevant for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven, and we compare these with predictions for real prompt photon production.
Berger Edmond L.
Gordon Lionel E.
Klasen Michael
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