Inclusive jet production as a probe of polarized parton distribution functions at a future EIC

Radja Boughezal, Francis John Petriello, Hongxi Xing

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Abstract

We present a detailed phenomenological study of polarized inclusive jet production in electron-proton collisions at a future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Our analysis is performed at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD using the numerical code DISTRESS and includes all relevant partonic channels and resolved photon contributions. We elucidate the role of different kinematic regions in probing different aspects of proton and photon structure. We emphasize the importance of inclusive jet measurements and high collision energies at a future EIC in order to further constrain the polarized gluon distribution of the proton.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number054031
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume98
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 27 2018

Funding

We thank J. Qiu, B. Page and W. Vogelsang for comments on the manuscript. R.B. is supported by the DOE Award No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. F.P. is supported by the DOE Awards No. DE-FG02-91ER40684 and No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. H.X. is supported by the DOE Award No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 and the NSF Grant No. NSF-1740142. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. We thank J. Qiu, B. Page and W. Vogelsang for comments on the manuscript. R.\u2009B. is supported by the DOE Award No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. F.\u2009P. is supported by the DOE Awards No. DE-FG02-91ER40684 and No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. H.\u2009X. is supported by the DOE Award No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 and the NSF Grant No. NSF-1740142. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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