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SLAC Publication: SLAC-PUB-14494
SLAC Release Date: August 19, 2011
Accessing the Distribution of Linearly Polarized Gluons in Unpolarized Hadrons
Pisano, Christian.
Gluons inside unpolarized hadrons can be linearly polarized provided they have a nonzero transverse momentum. The simplest and theoretically safest way to probe this distribution of linearly polarized gluons is through cos(2 phi) asymmetries in heavy quark pair or dijet production in electron-hadron collisions. Future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) or Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) experiments are ideally suited for this purpose. Here we estimate the maximum asymmetries for EIC kinematics.
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  • Interest Categories: HEP Phenomenology, HEP Theory