Abstract
The Spin Physics Detector (SPD) is a future multipurpose experiment foreseen to run at the NICA collider, which is currently under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, Russia). The physics program of the experiment is based on collisions of longitudinally and transversely polarized protons and deuterons at s up to 27 GeV and luminosity up to 1032 cm−2 s−1. SPD will operate as a universal facility for the comprehensive study of the unpolarized and polarized gluon content of the nucleon, using complementary probes such as: charmonia, open-charm, and prompt-photon production processes. The aim of this work is to provide a thorough review of the physics objectives that can potentially be addressed at SPD, underlining related theoretical aspects and discussing relevant experimental results when available. Among different pertinent phenomena particular attention is drawn to the study of the gluon helicity, gluon Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions in the nucleon, as well as the gluon transversity distribution in the deuteron, via the measurement of single and double spin asymmetries.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 103858 |
Journal | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics |
Volume | 119 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank D. Boer and all participants of the workshop “Gluon content of proton and deuteron with the Spin Physics Detector at the NICA collider” for useful and inspiring discussions. M.G.E. is supported by the Spanish MICINN grant PID2019-106080GB-C21. M.N. and V.S. are supported by the Ministry of education and science of Russia via the State assignment to educational and research institutions under project FSSS-2020-0014. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No.824093 (STRONG-2020). J.P.L. was also partly supported by the French CNRS via the IN2P3 project GLUE@NLO and via the Franco-Chinese LIA FCPPL (Quarkonium4AFTER), by the P2IO Labex via the Gluodynamics project and by the French ANR via the PRC PrecisOnium project.
Funding Information:
We thank D. Boer and all participants of the workshop “ Gluon content of proton and deuteron with the Spin Physics Detector at the NICA collider ” for useful and inspiring discussions. M.G.E. is supported by the Spanish MICINN grant PID2019-106080GB-C21 . M.N. and V.S. are supported by the Ministry of education and science of Russia via the State assignment to educational and research institutions under project FSSS-2020-0014. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No.824093 (STRONG-2020). J.P.L. was also partly supported by the French CNRS via the IN2P3 project GLUE@NLO and via the Franco-Chinese LIA FCPPL (Quarkonium4AFTER), by the P2IO Labex via the Gluodynamics project and by the French ANR via the PRC PrecisOnium project.
Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords
- Gluon TMD PDFs
- Polarized hadron collisions
- Proton and deuteron spin structure
- QCD
- Spin asymmetries
- TMD factorization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics