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Phys. Rev. D 70, 012002 (2004) [9 pages]

Spin asymmetries for events with high pT hadrons in DIS and an evaluation of the gluon polarization

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B. Adeva et al. (Spin Muon Collaboration)
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Received 31 January 2004; published 23 July 2004

We present a measurement of the longitudinal spin cross section asymmetry for deep-inelastic muon-nucleon interactions with two high transverse momentum hadrons in the final state. Two methods of event classification are used to increase the contribution of the photon-gluon fusion process to above 30%. The most effective one, based on a neural network approach, provides the asymmetries AplNlhhX=0.030±0.057(stat)±0.010(syst) and AdlNlhhX=0.070±0.076(stat)±0.010(syst). From these values we derive an averaged gluon polarization ΔG/G=-0.20±0.28(stat)±0.10(syst) at an average fraction of nucleon momentum carried by gluons η=0.07.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.012002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.012002
PACS:
13.60.Hb, 13.88.+e, 14.70.Dj