Cross sections and double-helicity asymmetries of midrapidity inclusive charged hadrons in p+pp+p collisions at s=62.4\sqrt{s}=62.4 GeV

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Feb, 2012
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 092006
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Unpolarized cross sections and double-helicity asymmetries of single-inclusive positive and negative charged hadrons at midrapidity from p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=62.4 GeV are presented. The PHENIX measurements for 1.0 < p_T < 4.5 GeV/c are consistent with perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant, alpha_s. Resummed pQCD calculations including terms with next-to-leading-log accuracy, yielding reduced theoretical uncertainties, also agree with the data. The double-helicity asymmetry, sensitive at leading order to the gluon polarization in a momentum-fraction range of 0.05 ~< x_gluon ~< 0.2, is consistent with recent global parameterizations disfavoring large gluon polarization.
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  • PHENIX Collaboration. 447 authors, 12 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to Physical Review D
  • 13.88.+e
  • 13.85.-t
  • 14.20.Dh
  • gluon: polarization
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • higher-order: 1
  • higher-order: 0
  • strong interaction: coupling constant
  • helicity: asymmetry
  • PHENIX