We study the potential impact of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data from a future electron–ion collider (EIC) on longitudinally polarized parton distributions (PDFs). We perform a PDF determination using the NNPDF methodology, based on sets of deep-inelastic EIC pseudodata, for different realistic choices of the electron and proton beam energies. We compare the results to our current polarized PDF set, NNPDFpol1.0 , based on a fit to fixed-target inclusive DIS data. We show that the uncertainties on the first moments of the polarized quark singlet and gluon distributions are substantially reduced in comparison to NNPDFpol1.0 , but also that more measurements may be needed to ultimately pin down the size of the gluon contribution to the nucleon spin.
Polarized parton distributions at an electron–ion collider / R. Ball, S. Forte, A. Guffanti, E. Nocera, G. Ridolfi, J. Rojo. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - 728:1(2014), pp. 524-531. [10.1016/j.physletb.2013.12.023]
Polarized parton distributions at an electron–ion collider
S. Forte;E. Nocera;
2014
Abstract
We study the potential impact of inclusive deep-inelastic scattering data from a future electron–ion collider (EIC) on longitudinally polarized parton distributions (PDFs). We perform a PDF determination using the NNPDF methodology, based on sets of deep-inelastic EIC pseudodata, for different realistic choices of the electron and proton beam energies. We compare the results to our current polarized PDF set, NNPDFpol1.0 , based on a fit to fixed-target inclusive DIS data. We show that the uncertainties on the first moments of the polarized quark singlet and gluon distributions are substantially reduced in comparison to NNPDFpol1.0 , but also that more measurements may be needed to ultimately pin down the size of the gluon contribution to the nucleon spin.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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