We present a determination of the gluon polarisation Δg/g in the nucleon, based on the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry of DIS events with Q2>1 (GeV/c)2 including a pair of large transverse-momentum hadrons in the final state. The data were obtained by the COMPASS experiment at CERN using a 160 GeV/c polarised muon beam scattering off a polarised View the MathML source target. The gluon polarisation is evaluated by a Neural Network approach for three intervals of the gluon momentum fraction xg covering the range 0.04<xg<0.27. The values obtained at leading order in QCD do not show any significant dependence on xg. Their average is Δg/g=0.125±0.060 (stat.)±0.063 (syst.) at average xg=0.09 and a scale of μ2=3 (GeV/c)2.
Titolo: | Leading order determination of the gluon polarisation from DIS events with high- hadron pairs |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2013 |
Stato di pubblicazione: | Pubblicato |
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Abstract: | We present a determination of the gluon polarisation Δg/g in the nucleon, based on the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry of DIS events with Q2>1 (GeV/c)2 including a pair of large transverse-momentum hadrons in the final state. The data were obtained by the COMPASS experiment at CERN using a 160 GeV/c polarised muon beam scattering off a polarised View the MathML source target. The gluon polarisation is evaluated by a Neural Network approach for three intervals of the gluon momentum fraction xg covering the range 0.04<xg<0.27. The values obtained at leading order in QCD do not show any significant dependence on xg. Their average is Δg/g=0.125±0.060 (stat.)±0.063 (syst.) at average xg=0.09 and a scale of μ2=3 (GeV/c)2. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2648074 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.056 |
URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312012221 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in Rivista |