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Next-to-leading order jet cross sections in polarized hadronic collisions

D. de Florian, S. Frixione, A. Signer, W. Vogelsang

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9808262

Abstract

We present a next-to-leading order computation in QCD of one-jet and two-jet cross sections in polarized hadronic collisions. Our results are obtained in the framework of a general formalism that deals with soft and collinear singularities using the subtraction method. We construct a Monte Carlo program that generates events at the partonic level. We use this code to give phenomenological predictions for pp collisions at S=500 GeV, relevant for the spin physics program at RHIC. The possibility of using jet data to constrain the poorly known polarized parton densities is examined.

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