Extracting the Gluon Piece of the Spin Puzzle: New Inclusive Jet Results from STAR
Abstract
This contribution presents the most recent mid-rapidity inclusive jet results from 3 pb-1 of data collected from longitudinally polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV during the 2005 RHIC run. The inclusive jet asymmetry, aLL, with it's increased transverse momentum range and precision, provides strong constraints on the gluon helicity distribution when compared with existing next-to-leading order perturbative QCD evaluations.
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