Improved measurement of double helicity asymmetry in inclulsive midrapidity π0 production for polarized p+p collisions at √s=200 GeV

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作者
Adler, S. S. [1 ]
Afanasiev, S.
Aidala, C.
Ajitanand, N. N.
Akiba, Y.
Al-Jamel, A.
Alexander, J.
Aoki, K.
Aphecetche, L.
Armendariz, R.
Aronson, S. H.
Averbeck, R.
Awes, T. C.
Azmoun, B.
Babintsev, V.
Baldisseri, A.
Barish, K. N.
Barnes, P. D.
Bassalleck, B.
Bathe, S.
Batsouli, S.
Baublis, V.
Bauer, F.
Bazilevsky, A.
Belikov, S.
Bennett, R.
Berdnikov, Y.
Bjorndal, M. T.
Boissevain, J. G.
Borel, H.
Boyle, K.
Brooks, M. L.
Brown, D. S.
Bruner, N.
Bucher, D.
Buesching, H.
Bumazhnov, V.
Bunce, G.
Burward-Hoy, J. M.
Butsyk, S.
Camard, X.
Campbell, S.
Chai, J. -S.
Chand, P.
Chang, W. C.
Chernichenko, S.
Chi, C. Y.
Chiba, J.
Chiu, M.
Choi, I. J.
机构
[1] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[2] Abilene Christian Univ, Abilene, TX 79699 USA
[3] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[4] Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Phys, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
[5] Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Bombay 400085, Maharashtra, India
[6] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[7] China Inst Atom Energy, Beijing, Peoples R China
[8] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Ctr Nucl Study, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[9] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[10] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[11] Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10533 USA
[12] CEA Saclay, Dapnia, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[13] Debrecen Univ, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[14] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
[15] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[16] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[17] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[18] IHEP Protvino, State Res Ctr Russian Federat, Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Russia
[19] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[20] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[21] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia
[22] KAERI, Cyclotron Applicat Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[23] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[24] Hungarian Acad Sci, MTA KFKI RMKI, KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[25] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[26] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[27] Kurchatov Inst, Russian Res Ctr, Moscow, Russia
[28] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[29] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[30] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[31] Univ Clermont Ferrand, CNRS, IN2P3, LPC, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[32] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[33] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[34] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Konggido, South Korea
[35] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193, Japan
[36] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[37] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[38] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[39] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, IPN, F-91406 Orsay, France
[40] Peking Univ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[41] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, PNPI, Gatchina 188300, Leningrad Reg, Russia
[42] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[43] Rikkyo Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1718501, Japan
[44] St Petersburg State Polytech Univ, St Petersburg, Russia
[45] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[46] Seoul Natl Univ, Syst Elect Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[47] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Chem, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[48] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[49] Univ Nantes, CNRS, IN2P3, SUBATECH Ecole Mines Nantes, F-44307 Nantes, France
[50] Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2006年 / 73卷 / 09期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.73.091102
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We present an improved measurement of the double helicity asymmetry for pi(0) production in polarized proton-proton scattering at root s=200 GeV employing the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The improvements to our previous measurement come from two main factors: Inclusion of a new data set from the 2004 RHIC run with higher beam polarizations than the earlier run and a recalibration of the beam polarization measurements for the earlier run, which resulted in reduced uncertainties and increased beam polarizations. The results are compared to a Next to Leading Order (NLO) perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) calculation with a range of polarized gluon distributions.
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