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We parametrise the polarised gluon and sea distribution functions incorporating the interpretation of the EMC experiment that, due to the axial anomaly the observed quark contribution to proton spin\(\Delta \Sigma ' = \Delta \Sigma - f\frac{{\alpha _s }}{{2\pi }}\Delta g \approx 0\) at <Q 2>=10.7 GeV2. Typical processes to isolate the gluonic and sea content of the proton studied here are the largeP T direct photon production processes (a) using single polarized protonPP↑→γ↑↓X and (b) polarized beam and target protonP↑P↑↓→γX. In both the above process the dominant contribution comes from the “Compton” subprocess and so can be used as a clean probe of the gluonic content of the proton. LargeP T muon pair production P↑P↑↓→(μ+μ−)X are also studied and we find that the annihilation subprocess dominates, but not much larger than the “Compton” subprocess and so may not be a clean probe of the sea content of the proton. The effect of two loop corrections to the parametrisation and asymmetries are also considered, and are found to be negligible.
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Mathews, P., Ramachandran, R. LargeP T P−P collisions to probe the gluonic and sea spin distribution in the proton. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 53, 305–310 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01597569
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