Single-Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized pp Collisions at O(alpha_s^3)

Details Single-Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized pp Collisions at O(alpha_s^3) Single-Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized pp Collisions at O(alpha_s^3)

2004-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0404057v1

Phys.Rev.D70:034010,2004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

23 pages, 8 eps-figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.034010

We present a next-to-leading order QCD calculation for single-inclusive high-p_T jet production in longitudinally polarized pp collisions within the ``small-cone'' approximation. The fully analytical expressions obtained for the underlying partonic hard-scattering cross sections greatly facilitate the analysis of upcoming BNL-RHIC data on the double-spin asymmetry A_{LL}^{jet} for this process in terms of the unknown polarization of gluons in the nucleon. We simultaneously rederive the corresponding QCD corrections to unpolarized scattering and confirm the results existing in the literature. We also numerically compare to results obtained with Monte-Carlo methods and assess the range of validity of the ``small-cone'' approximation for the kinematics relevant at BNL-RHIC.

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