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Diffractive rho-meson Leptoproduction on Polarized Nucleon as a Way to Measure the Polarized Gluon Distribution

M. G. Ryskin

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9706505

Abstract

The amplitude of diffractive ρ (and open quark) leptoproduction on a polarized target is calculated in the leading log approximation of pQCD using the hadron-parton duality hypothesis. The spin-spin asymmetry is expressed in terms of the spin dependent gluon and quark structure functions in the small x region. Therefore the γ*+p ρ+p reaction provides a promising tool to study the spin dependent gluon distribution ΔG(x,q2).

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