Note: When clicking on a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number, you will be taken to an external site maintained by the publisher.
Some full text articles may not yet be available without a charge during the embargo (administrative interval).
What is a DOI Number?
Some links on this page may take you to non-federal websites. Their policies may differ from this site.
-
Free, publicly-accessible full text available February 19, 2026
-
Free, publicly-accessible full text available March 26, 2026
-
A recent global QCD analysis of jet production and other polarized scattering data has found the presence of negative solutions for the gluon helicity distribution in the proton, Δ𝑔, along with the traditional Δ𝑔>0 solutions. We consider polarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering for hadrons produced with large transverse momentum as a means of constraining the dependence of Δ𝑔 on the parton momentum fraction, 𝑥. Focusing on the double longitudinal spin asymmetry, we identify the kinematics relevant for future experiments at Jefferson Lab and the Electron-Ion Collider that are particularly sensitive to the polarized gluon channel and could discriminate between the different Δ𝑔 behaviors. We find that a ∼20 GeV beam at the high luminosity Jefferson Lab may be especially well-suited for discriminating between the positive and negative solutions.more » « less