Gluon Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in Polarized Proton-Proton Scattering
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We report on a calculation of one-loop weak corrections to polarized quark-gluon scattering and the corresponding crossed channels. Such contributions are suppressed formally by one power of αs relative to W− or Z−mediated quark-quark scattering, but would enable the spin asymmetry of the gluon distribution to contribute to parity-violating asymmetries that will soon be investigated in polarized proton-proton scattering experiments at RHIC. In certain kinematic regions, gluon contributions to parity-violating asymmetries can be as large as 10% of the tree-level W− and Z−exchanges in quark-quark scattering, but usually only where the parity-violating asymmetries are already small.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001