Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-10-03
Phys.Rev.Lett.103:012003,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
386 authors from 63 institutions, 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to Physical Review Letters. Plain text data tables fo
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.012003
The double helicity asymmetry in neutral pion production for p_T = 1 to 12 GeV/c has been measured with the PHENIX experiment in order to access the gluon spin contribution, Delta-G, to the proton spin. Measured asymmetries are consistent with zero, and at a theory scale of \mu^2 = 4 GeV^2 give Delta-G^[0.02,0.3] = 0.1 to 0.2, with a constraint of -0.7 < Delta-G^[0.02,0.3] < 0.5 at Delta-chi^2 = 9 (~3 sigma) for our sampled gluon momentum fraction (x) range, 0.02 to 0.3. The results are obtained using predictions for our measured asymmetries generated from four representative fits to polarized deep inelastic scattering data. We also consider the dependence of the Delta-G constraint on the choice of theoretical scale, a dominant uncertainty in these predictions.
Adare Andrew
PHENIX Collaboration
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