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Double Spin Asymmetries

The measurement of double spin asymmetries in certain final states seems to be the most valuable tool to measure polarized gluon and quark distribution functions in the nucleon. The most accurate way to do so is the study of those processes which can be calculated in the framework of perturbative QCD. Production of direct photon (plus jet), J/tex2html_wrap_inline512 (plus jet), and Drell-Yan pair final states are most suited because there are only small uncertainties due to fragmentation.
In the following we discuss the capabilities of HERA-tex2html_wrap_inline514, operated in doubly polarized mode, to perform such measurements.





Vladislav Korotkov
Wed Feb 18 18:48:45 MET 1998