Extraction of Gluon Momentum, Spin, Parity, and Coupling fromγ*N→ψNData
- 4 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (5), 304-308
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.304
Abstract
The unique ability of heavy-quark leptoproduction to probe constituent gluons is exploited. From recent data, the gluon distribution , , is extracted and is inferred. It is shown that measurement of as a function of for charm production can determine the gluon spin and parity.
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