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Determination of the gluon distribution function of the nucleon using energy-energy angular pattern in deep-inelastic muon-deuteron scattering

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We have used the energy-energy angular pattern of hadrons in inelastic muon-deuteron scattering to study perturbative QCD effects and to extract the gluon distribution functionηG(η) of the nucleon, whereη is the fractional momentum carried by the gluon. The data were taken with the E665 spectrometer using the Fermilab Tevatron muon beam with a mean beam energy of 490 GeV. We presentηG(η) for 0.005<η<0.05 and at an averageQ 2 of 8 GeV2 using this new technique. We find thatηG(η) in this region can be described byηG(η)α ηλ withλ=−0.87±0.09(stat.)± 0.320.37 (sys.). We compare our results to expectations from various parametrizations of the parton distribution function and also to results from HERA.

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  1. S. Aïd

    Present address: University of Hamburg, D-22603, Hamburg, Germany

  2. P. L. Anthony

    Present address: SLAC, 94309, Stanford, CA, USA

  3. A. A. Bhatti

    Present address: The Rockefeller University, 10021, New York, NY, USA

  4. J. M. Conrad

    Present address: Columbia University, 10027, New York, NY

  5. G. Coutrakon

    Present address: Loma Linda University Medical Center, 92350, Loma Linda, CA, USA

  6. U. Ecker

    Present address: , Jenfelderstr. 147, D-22045, Hamburg, Germany

  7. M. Erdmann

    Present address: Heidelberg University, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany

  8. R. Gilman

    Present address: Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, NJ, USA

  9. M. C. Green

    Present address: LeCroy Research Systems, Spring Valley, NY, USA

  10. D. Hantke

    Present address: 1097 GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH, 85764, Oberschleißheim, Germany

  11. D. M. Jansen

    Present address: Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, 69029, Heidelberg, Germany

  12. T. Kirk

    Present address: Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11973, Upton, NY, USA

  13. S. Magill & R. Talaga

    Present address: Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, IL, USA

  14. D. G. Michael

    Present address: California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA, USA

  15. R. B. Nickerson

    Present address: Oxford University, OX1 3RH, Oxford, UK

  16. S. O’Day & E. J. Ramberg

    Present address: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA

  17. V. Papavassiliou

    Present address: New Mexico State University, 88003, Las Cruces, NM, USA

  18. A. Röser

    Present address: Klinikum Barmen, Abt. Radiologie, D-42283, Wuppertal, Germany

  19. C. W. Salgado

    Present address: CEBAF, 23606, Newport News, VA, USA

  20. A. Salvarani

    Present address: A.T. & T., Bell Labs, 2000 North Naperville Road, Naperville, IL, USA

  21. M. Schmitt

    Present address: University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

  22. K. P. Schüler

    Present address: DESY, D-22603, Hamburg, Germany

  23. S. Söldner-Rembold

    Present address: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79104, Freiburg, Germany

  24. S. Tentindo-Repond

    Present address: Northern Illinois University, 60115, Dekalb, IL, USA

  25. H. J. Trost

    Present address: Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, USA

  26. H. Venkataramania

    Present address: Northwestern University, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA

  27. M. Wilhelm

    Present address: Hoffmann-LaRoche, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., Germany

    T. Dreyer, M. Erdmann, J. Haas, W. Mohr, H. E. Stier & M. Wilhelm

  2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA

    D. F. Geesaman, R. Gilman, M. C. Green, H. E. Jackson, S. Kaufman, S. Tentindo-Repond & H. J. Trost

  3. University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    R. D. Kennedy, H. G. E. Kobrak, A. Salvarani & R. A. Swanson

  4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA

    J. Bartlett, G. Coutrakon, J. Hanlon, T. Kirk, S. Krzywdzinski, H. Melanson, H. E. Montgomery, J. G. Morfin, C. W. Salgado & S. A. Wolbers

  5. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    J. M. Conrad, D. G. Michael, R. B. Nickerson, F. M. Pipkin, M. Schmitt & Richard Wilson

  6. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

    M. R. Adams, C. Halliwell, D. McLeod & S. Magill

  7. KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary

    G. Jancso

  8. Institute for Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland

    A. Eskreys, J. Figiel, P. Malecki, K. Olkiewicz, B. Pawlik & P. Stopa

  9. Institute for Nuclear Physics, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland

    K. Dziunikowska

  10. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    S. Aïd, S. Kunori, S. O’Day, E. J. Ramberg, A. Skuja, G. A. Snow, P. H. Steinberg & R. Talaga

  11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    P. L. Anthony, M. D. Baker, W. Busza, L. Osborne & J. J. Ryan

  12. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany

    T. J. Carroll, I. Derado, V. Eckardt, H. J. Gebauer, D. Hantke, A. Manz, N. Schmitz, H. J. Seyerlein, S. Söldner-Rembold & W. Wittek

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    A. A. Bhatti & H. Schellman

  14. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    H. M. Braun, R. Davisson, W. Dougherty, J. J. Lord, H. J. Lubatti, J. Wilkes & T. Zhao

  15. University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

    S. K. Dhawan, U. Ecker, D. M. Jansen & A. Röser

  16. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    V. W. Hughes, V. Papavassiliou, K. P. Schüler & H. Venkataramania

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E665 Collaboration., Adams, M.R., Aïd, S. et al. Determination of the gluon distribution function of the nucleon using energy-energy angular pattern in deep-inelastic muon-deuteron scattering. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 71, 391–403 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906998

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