Probing Polarized Parton Distributions with Meson Photoproduction
Andrei Afanasev, Carl E. Carlson, Christian Wahlquist
Abstract
Polarization asymmetries in photoproduction of high transverse momentum mesons are a flavor sensitive way to measure the polarized quark distributions. We calculate the expected asymmetries in several models, and find that the asymmetries are significant and also significantly different from model to model. Suitable data may come as a by-product of deep inelastic experiments to measure g1 or from dedicated experiments.
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