The Gluon Distribution at Small X: A Phenomenological Analysis

Mar, 1990
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 243 (1990) 421-426
  • Published: 1990
Report number:
  • DTP/90/12,
  • RAL-90-018

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The size of the gluon distribution at small x has important implications for phenomenology at future high energy hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron colliders. We extend a recent global parton distribution fit to investigate the constraints on the gluon from deep inelastic and prompt photon data. In particular, we estimate a band of allowed gluon distributions with qualitatively different small- x behaviour and study the implications of these on a variety of cross sections at high energy pp and ep colliders.
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • deep inelastic scattering: electron p
  • p p: inclusive reaction
  • Drell-Yan process
  • photon: direct production
  • direct production: photon
  • gluon: momentum spectrum
  • spectrum: x-dependence
  • x-dependence: spectrum
  • quantum chromodynamics