Aspects of heavy quark production in polarized proton-proton collisions

M. Karliner; R. W. Robinett

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Aspects of heavy quark production in polarized proton-proton collisions

M. Karliner, R. W. Robinett

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We examine the spin-dependence of b-quark production at large p_T in polarized pp collisions. The leading-order (LO) 2 → 2 subprocesses, g + g → Q + Q and q + q → Q + Q have a large 'analyzing power', with the average spin-spin asymmetry approaching -100% at large p_T. Next-to-leading order (NLO) 2 → 3 processes have a large and positive asymmetry at large p_T, leading to strong cancellations with the LO predictions. The results suggest that b-quark production might constitute an interesting test of the spin-dependence of NLO QCD but they also point up the need for the complete O(α³_S spin-dependent corrections for extraction of the polarized gluon distribution.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	209-216
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	324
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(94)90409-X
State	Published - Mar 31 1994

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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