Abstract
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 ApℓN→ℓhhX=0.030±0.057(stat)±0. 010(syst) and AdℓN→ℓhhX=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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 012002 |
Pages (from-to) | 012002-1-012002-9 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 70 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics