1. Precision Measurement of the Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at s=200 GeV
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Adamczyk, L, Adkins, JK, Agakishiev, G, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alekseev, I, Alford, J, Anson, CD, Aparin, A, Arkhipkin, D, Aschenauer, EC, Averichev, GS, Banerjee, A, Beavis, DR, Bellwied, R, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bhattarai, P, Bichsel, H, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Bland, LC, Bordyuzhin, IG, Borowski, W, Bouchet, J, Brandin, AV, Brovko, SG, Bültmann, S, Bunzarov, I, Burton, TP, Butterworth, J, Caines, H, Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M, Campbell, JM, Cebra, D, Cendejas, R, Cervantes, MC, Chaloupka, P, Chang, Z, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, HF, Chen, JH, Chen, L, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Chikanian, A, Christie, W, Chwastowski, J, Codrington, MJM, Contin, G, Cramer, JG, Crawford, HJ, Cudd, AB, Cui, X, Das, S, Davila Leyva, A, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Deng, J, Derevschikov, AA, Derradi de Souza, R, Dhamija, S, di Ruzza, B, Didenko, L, Dilks, C, Ding, F, Djawotho, P, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Du, CM, Dunkelberger, LE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Engelage, J, Engle, KS, Eppley, G, Eun, L, Evdokimov, O, Eyser, O, Fatemi, R, Fazio, S, Fedorisin, J, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fisyak, Y, Flores, CE, Gagliardi, CA, Gangadharan, DR, Garand, D, Geurts, F, Gibson, A, Girard, M, Gliske, S, Greiner, L, Grosnick, D, Gunarathne, DS, Guo, Y, and Gupta, A
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STAR Collaboration ,hep-ex ,nucl-ex ,Mathematical Sciences ,Physical Sciences ,Engineering ,General Physics - Abstract
We report a new measurement of the midrapidity inclusive jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, A_{LL}, in polarized pp collisions at center-of-mass energy sqrt[s]=200 GeV. The STAR data place stringent constraints on polarized parton distribution functions extracted at next-to-leading order from global analyses of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), semi-inclusive DIS, and RHIC pp data. The measured asymmetries provide evidence at the 3σ level for positive gluon polarization in the Bjorken-x region x>0.05.
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- 2015