Monday, November 28, 2011, 3:00 pm — Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
We investigate hard interaction in QCD through the measurement of cross sections of mid-rapidity production of non-identified charged hadrons from $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 62.4$ GeV/$c$. Measurements are made in the transverse momentum range from 0.5 GeV/$c$ to 4.5 GeV/$c$ by the PHENIX collaboration at RHIC. The cross section results are consistent with predictions based on QCD calculations of next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy and shows better agreement with next-to-leading log QCD predictions. The double helicity asymmetry measurements of mid-rapidity non-identified charged hadrons in the stipulated transverse momentum range are sensitive at leading order to the polarization of gluons in a momentum fraction range $0.06 \leq x_{gluon} \leq 0.3$. Asymmetry measurements are consistent with zero and disfavor a large gluon polarization in the proton.
Hosted by: David Jaffe
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