POLARIZATION OF HIGH-TRANSVERSE-MOMENTUM SINGLE PHOTONS AS A TEST OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS

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DEVOTO, A [1 ]
PUMPLIN, J [1 ]
REPKO, W [1 ]
KANE, GL [1 ]
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[1] UNIV MICHIGAN,DEPT PHYS,ANN ARBOR,MI 48104
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.1062
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O4 [物理学];
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It is shown that high-transverse-momentum photons originating from the process quark+gluon quark+photon exhibit a substantial linear polarization in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. The angular dependence of the polarization is quite sensitive to the non-Abelian structure of the interaction, and can be used to check the equality of the quark-gluon and three-gluon couplings. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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