Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the polarized hadroproduction of heavy flavors
Files
(Published version)
Date
2003
Authors
Bojak, Ingo
Stratmann, Marco
Editors
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Type:
Journal article
Citation
Physical Review D, 2003; 67(3):034010
Statement of Responsibility
Ingo Bojak and Marco Stratmann
Conference Name
Abstract
We present the complete next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the polarized hadroproduction of heavy flavors which soon will be studied experimentally in polarized pp collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in order to constrain the polarized gluon density Δg. It is demonstrated that the dependence on unphysical renormalization and factorization scales is strongly reduced beyond the leading order. The sensitivity of the charm quark spin asymmetry to Δg is analyzed in some detail, including the limited detector acceptance for leptons from charm quark decays at the BNL RHIC.
School/Discipline
Dissertation Note
Provenance
Description
Access Status
Rights
©2003 American Physical Society