Accessing the Transverse Dynamics and Polarization of Gluons inside the Proton at the LHC

Abstract

We argue that the study of heavy quarkonia, in particular that of ${\rm Y}$, produced back-to-back with an isolated photon in $pp$ collisions at the LHC is the best --and currently unique-- way to access the distribution of both the transverse momentum and the polarization of the gluon in an unpolarized proton. These encode fundamental information on the dynamics of QCD. We have derived analytical expressions for various transverse-momentum distributions which can be measured at the LHC and which allow for a direct extraction of the aforementioned quantities. To assess the feasibility of such measurements, we have evaluated the expected yields and the relevant transverse-momentum distributions for different models of the gluon dynamics inside a proton.

5 pages, 3 figures; final version to appear in Physical Review Letters

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