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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Global analysis of helicity parton densities and their uncertainties
Daniel de Florian1, Rodolfo Sassot, Marco Stratmann
1Departamento de Fisica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon 1 (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
We present a new analysis of the helicity parton distributions of the nucleon. The analysis takes into account the available data from inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized deep inelastic scattering, as well as from polarized proton-proton (p-p) scattering at RHIC. For the first time, all theoretical calculations are performed fully at next-to-leading order (NLO) of perturbative QCD, using a method that allows incorporation of the NLO corrections in a very fast and efficient way in the analysis. We find evidence for a rather small gluon polarization in the nucleon, over a limited region of momentum fraction, and for interesting flavor patterns in the polarized sea.
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