| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 204, 2019
XXIV International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems “Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics” (Baldin ISHEPP XXIV)
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| Article Number | 02006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Quantum Chromodynamics at Large Distances | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920402006 | |
| Published online | 03 April 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920402006
How to measure the linear polarization of gluons in unpolarized proton using the heavy-quark pair production
1 Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Russia
2 Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Russia
3 Yerevan Physics Institute, Alikhanian Br. 2, 0036 Yerevan, Armenia
* e-mail: nikiv@yerphi.am
Published online: 3 April 2019
In recent papers [1, 2], two new ways have been proposed to probe the linear polarization of gluons in unpolarized proton: using the azimuthal asymmetries and Callan-Gross ratio in heavy-quark pair leptoproduction, lN → l′QQ̅X. In this talk, we discuss in details the sensitivity of the QCD predictions for the azimuthal cos φ and cos 2φ asymmetries to the contribution of linearly polarized gluons inside unpolarized proton, where the azimuth φ is the angle between the lepton scattering plane (l, l′) and the heavy quark production plane (N, Q). Our analysis shows that the azimuthal distributions under consideration vary from 0 to 1 depending on the value of the gluonic counterpart of the Boer- Mulders function, 
. We conclude that the cos φ and cos 2φ asymmetries in heavy-quark pair production in DIS processes are predicted to be large in wide kinematic ranges and sensitive to the contribution of linearly polarized gluons.
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