posted on 2008-04-14, 00:00authored byBI Abelev, MM Aggarwal, Z Ahammed, J Amonett, BD Anderson, M Anderson, D Arkhipkin, GS Averichev, Y BaI, J Balewski, O Barannikova, T Kollegger, M Kopytine, L Kotchenda, V Kouchpil, KL Kowalik, L Ruan, M Kramer, P Kravtsov, A Bellingeri-Laurikainen, N van der Kolk, MM de Moura, AK Bhati, VI Kravtsov, K Krueger, C Kuhn, AI Kulikov, A Kumar, AA Kuznetsov, MJ Russcher, MAC Lamont, JM Landgraf, TG Dedovich, YG Ma, S Lange, S LaPointe, CJ McClain, R Bellwied, F Laue, J Lauret, A Lebedev, R Lednicky, R Sahoo, M DePhillips, CH Lee, S Raniwala, S Lehocka, MJ LeVine, C Li, Q Li, TS McShane, Y Li, F Benedosso, G Lin, AA Derevschikov, X Lin, M Botje, RV Cadman, SJ Lindenbaum, MA Lisa, F Liu, H Liu, J Liu, L Liu, Yu Melnick, L Didenko, Z Liu, T Ljubicic, S Bhardwaj, M van Leeuwen, T Sakuma, WJ Llope, A Meschanin, J Millane, ML Miller, NG Minaev, R Manweiler, S Mioduszewski, C Mironov, TD Gutierrez, A Mischke, AM Vander Molen, H Bichsel, S Salur, DK Mishra, J Mitchell, B Mohanty, T Dietel, L Molnar, CF Moore, DA Morozov, MG Munhoz, BK Nandi, R Varma, B Haag, C Nattrass, RS Longacre, TK Nayak, P Djawotho, J Bielcik, JM Nelson, PK Netrakanti, LV Nogach, SB Nurushev, G Odyniec, IM Vasilevski, A Ogawa, V Okorokov, TJ Hallman, SM Dogra, TW Henry, M Oldenburg, D Olson, M Pachr, J Bielcikova, SK Pal, Y Panebratsev, AN Vasiliev, SY Panitkin, AI Pavlinov, JB Roberts, T Pawlak, T Peitzmann, J Sandweiss, A Hamed, V Perevoztchikov, C Perkins, W Peryt, SC Phatak, R Vernet, LC Bland, S Trentalange, R Picha, M Planinic, J Pluta, N Poljak, M Sarsour, N Porile, JW Harris, J Porter, AM Poskanzer, GW Hoffmann, TJ Humanic, M Potekhin, E Potrebenikova, BVKS Potukuchi, SL Blyth, D Prindle, C Pruneau, PS Sazhin, J Putschke, G Rakness, W He, WJ Dong, SE Vigdor, R Raniwala, J Schambach, RP Scharenberg, N Schmitz, J Seger, I Selyuzhenkov, J Bouchet, WA Love, P Seyboth, X Dong, LS Barnby, VP Viyogi, A Shabetai, E Shahaliev, M Shao, M Sharma, WQ Shen, SS Shimanskiy, EP Sichtermann, F Simon, JE Draper, Y Lu, RN Singaraju, RL Ray, AV Brandin, S Hepplemann, N Smirnov, R Snellings, G Sood, P Sorensen, J Sowinski, F Du, J Speltz, HM Spinka, T Ludlam, A Bhasin, B Srivastava, A Stadnik, TDS Stanislaus, B Hippolyte, A Bravar, R Stock, VB Dunin, A Stolpovsky, M Strikhanov, B Stringfellow, AAP Suaide, S Vokal, D Lynn, E Sugarbaker, M Sumbera, Z Sun, B Surrow, JC Dunlop, A Hirsch, M Swanger, TP Burton, TJM Symons, A Szanto de Toledo, SA Voloshin, A Tai, GL Ma, J Takahashi, AH Tang, S Margetis, T Tarnowsky, D Thein, JH Thomas, E Hjort, AR Timmins, S Timoshenko, XZ Cai, M Bystersky, M Tokarev, JG Ma, MR Dutta Mazumdar, TA Trainor, WT Waggoner, F Wang, G Wang, JS Wang, XL Wang, MJ Horner, SV Razin, Y Wang, KSFF Guimaraes, V Eckardt, JW Watson, JC Webb, GD Westfall, A Wetzler, H Caines, C Whitten, H Wieman, SW Wissink, J Reinnarth, R Witt, RE Tribble, HZ Huang, D Magestro, J Wood, J Wu, N Xu, QH Xu, Z Xu, P Yepes, M Caldero´n de la Barca Sa´nchez, D Relyea, M Heinz, IK Yoo, VI Yurevich, W Zhan, DP Mahapatra, SL Huang, H Zhang, J Castillo, O Catu, D Cebra, Z Chajecki, WR Edwards, BE Bonner, P Chaloupka, S Chattopadhyay, HF Chen, JH Chen, R Majka, J Cheng, EW Hughes, M Cherney, A Chikanian, L Efimov, W Christie, A Ridiger, JP Coffin, TM Cormier, MR Cosentino, JG Cramer, HJ Crawford, LK Mangotra, D Das, S Das, G Igo, J Baudot, S Dash, HG Ritter, M Daugherity, V Emelianov, J Engelage, G Eppley, B Erazmus, M Estienne, C Markert, OD Tsai, P Fachini, H Long, R Fatemi, J Fedorisin, P Filip, E Finch, P Jacobs, V Fine, Y Fisyak, J Fu, J Ulery, CA Gagliardi, L Martin, OV Rogachevskiy, L Gaillard, MS Ganti, V Ghazikhanian, P Ghosh, JE Gonzalez, YG Gorbunov, WW Jacobs, T Ullrich, H Gos, O Grebenyuk, D Grosnick, JL Romero, HS Matis, SM Guertin, P Jakl, F Jia, H Jiang, PG Jones, AM Hoffman, EG Judd, S Kabana, S Bekele, K Kang, A Rose, J Kapitan, Yu A Matulenko, M Kaplan, D Keane, A Kechechyan, DG Underwood, YVu Khodyrev, BC Kim, J Kiryluk, A Kisiel, EM Kislov, C Roy, VV Belaga, SR Klein, N Gupta, A Kocoloski, G Van Buren, DD Koetke
We report a measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A(LL) and the differential cross section for inclusive midrapidity jet production in polarized proton collisions at s=200 GeV. The cross section data cover transverse momenta 5 < p(T)< 50 GeV/c and agree with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD evaluations. The A(LL) data cover 5 < p(T)< 17 GeV/c and disfavor at 98% C.L. maximal positive gluon polarization in the polarized nucleon.