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NLO QCD PREDICTIONS FOR GLUON POLARIZATION FROM<br />

OPEN-CHARM ASYMMETRIES MEASURED AT COMPASS<br />

Krzyszt<strong>of</strong> Kurek †<br />

Andrzej So̷ltan Institute for Nuclear Studies<br />

† E-mail: kurek@fuw.edu.pl<br />

Abstract<br />

Recently published by the COMPASS Collaboration result on gluon polarization,<br />

ΔG/G, from the open-charm channel has been obtained in the LO QCD<br />

approximation. The NLO QCD corrections to the analyzing power for the Photon-<br />

Gluon Fusion process are calculated in the COMPASS kinematical domain. The<br />

method based on the LO QCD Monte-Carlo generator with Parton Shower is proposed<br />

to simulate Phase Space for the NLO QCD processes. This approach can<br />

be easily implemented in the weighted method for estimation <strong>of</strong> gluon polarization,<br />

used in the COMPASS analysis. The new result for the gluon polarization in the<br />

NLO QCD approximation, based on published asymmetries for open-charm channel<br />

from COMPASS, is shown. The proposed method is compared with the approach<br />

where events are generated from uniformly distributed kinematical variables and<br />

then weighted by calculated NLO QCD cross section for Photon-Gluon Fusion process.<br />

This allows to control the potential bias related to the non-properly treated<br />

Phase Space for NLO QCD processes in the LO QCD Monte Carlo with Parton<br />

Shower concept.<br />

1 Introduction<br />

The COMPASS is a fixed target experiment at CERN laboratory. One <strong>of</strong> its goals is<br />

the direct measurement <strong>of</strong> the gluon polarization, important for understanding the spin<br />

structure <strong>of</strong> the nucleon. The experiment is using a 160 GeV polarized muon beam from<br />

SPS at CERN scattered <strong>of</strong>f a polarized 6 LiD target [1].<br />

In LO QCD approximation the only subprocess which probes gluons inside nucleon is<br />

Photon-Gluon Fusion (PGF). There are two ways allowing direct access to gluon polarisation<br />

via the PGF subprocess available in the COMPASS experiment: the open-charm<br />

channel where the events with reconstructed D 0 mesons are used and the production<br />

<strong>of</strong> two hadrons with relatively high-pT in the final state. The estimation <strong>of</strong> the gluon<br />

polarisation in the open-charm channel is much less Monte-Carlo (MC) dependent than<br />

in the two high-pT hadrons method, where the complicated background requires very<br />

good MC description <strong>of</strong> the data. On the other hand the statistical precision in high-pT<br />

hadrons method is much higher than in the open charm channel. To increase statistical<br />

precision the weighting method has been used in the open-charm analysis, recently published<br />

by COMPASS Collaboration [2]. The analysis has been performed in LO QCD<br />

approximation. The resolved photon contribution has been checked to be unimportant in<br />

the kinematical domain covered by COMPASS experiment. The estimation <strong>of</strong> the gluon<br />

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