Determination of gluon polarization from deep inelastic scattering and collider data

Abstract

We investigate impact of ${\pi }^0$-production data at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and future E07-011 experiment for the structure function $g_1$ of the deuteron at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) on studies of nucleonic spin structure, especially on the polarized gluon distribution function. By global analyses of polarized lepton-nucleon scattering and the ${\pi }^0$-production data, polarized parton distribution functions are determined and their uncertainties are estimated by the Hessian method. Two types of the gluon distribution function are investigated. One is a positive distribution and the other is a node-type distribution which changes sign at $x\sim 0.1$. Although the RHIC ${\pi }^0$ data seem to favor the node type for $\Delta g(x)$, it is difficult to determine a precise functional form from the current data. However, it is interesting to find that the gluon distribution $\Delta g(x)$ is positive at large $x$ ($>0.2$) due to constraints from the scaling violation in $g_1$ and RHIC ${\pi }^0$ data. The JLab-E07-011 measurements for $g_1^d$ should be also able to reduce the gluon uncertainty, and the reduction is comparable to the one by RUN-5 ${\pi }^0$-production data at RHIC. The reduction is caused by the error correlation between polarized antiquark and gluon distributions and by a next-to-leading-order (NLO) gluonic effect in the structure function $g_1^d$. We find that the JLab-E07-011 data are accurate enough to probe the NLO gluonic term in $g_1$. Both RHIC and JLab data contribute to better determination of the polarized gluon distribution in addition to improvement on polarized quark and antiquark distributions.

11 pages, 9 eps figures, To be published in Nuclear Physics B. AAC08 FORTRAN package is available at the web site http://spin.riken.bnl.gov/aac/

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