Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for J/ψ production in polarized p plus p collisions at √s=200 GeV

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作者
Adare, A. [1 ]
Afanasiev, S. [28 ]
Aidala, C. [42 ]
Ajitanand, N. N. [58 ]
Akiba, Y. [53 ]
Al-Bataineh, H. [48 ]
Alexander, J. [58 ]
Al-Ta'ani, H. [48 ]
Angerami, A. [13 ,14 ]
Aoki, K. [35 ,53 ]
Apadula, N. [59 ]
Aphecetche, L. [60 ]
Aramaki, Y. [12 ]
Asai, J. [53 ]
Atomssa, E. T. [36 ]
Averbeck, R. [59 ]
Awes, T. C. [49 ]
Azmoun, B. [7 ]
Babintsev, V. [24 ]
Bai, M. [6 ]
Baksay, G. [20 ]
Baksay, L. [20 ]
Baldisseri, A. [16 ]
Barish, K. N. [8 ]
Barnes, P. D. [38 ]
Bassalleck, B. [47 ]
Basye, A. T. [2 ]
Bathe, S. [8 ]
Batsouli, S. [49 ]
Baublis, V. [52 ]
Baumann, C. [43 ]
Bazilevsky, A. [7 ]
Belikov, S. [7 ]
Belmont, R. [64 ]
Bennett, R. [59 ]
Berdnikov, A. [55 ]
Berdnikov, Y. [55 ]
Bhom, J. H. [67 ]
Bickley, A. A. [1 ]
Blau, D. S. [34 ]
Boissevain, J. G. [38 ]
Bok, J. S. [67 ]
Borel, H. [16 ]
Borggren, N. [58 ]
Boyle, K. [59 ]
Brooks, M. L. [38 ]
Buesching, H. [7 ]
Bumazhnov, V. [24 ]
Bunce, G. [7 ]
Butsyk, S. [38 ]
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 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] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Collider Accelerator Dept, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[7] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[8] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[9] Charles Univ Prague, CR-11636 Prague 1, Czech Republic
[10] Chonbuk Natl Univ, Jeonju 561756, South Korea
[11] CIAE, Beijing, Peoples R China
[12] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Ctr Nucl Study, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[13] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[14] Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10533 USA
[15] Czech Tech Univ, Prague 16636 6, Czech Republic
[16] CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[17] Debrecen Univ, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[18] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
[19] Ewha Womans Univ, Seoul 120750, South Korea
[20] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[21] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[22] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[23] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[24] State Res Ctr Russian Federat, IHEP Protvino, Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Russia
[25] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[26] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague 18221 8, Czech Republic
[27] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[28] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia
[29] Helsinki Inst Phys, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
[30] Univ Jyvaskyla, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
[31] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[32] Hungarian Acad Sci MTA KFKI RMKI, KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[33] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[34] Russian Res Ctr Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
[35] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[36] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[37] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[38] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[39] Univ Blaise Pascal, LPC, CNRS, IN2P3, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, Aubiere, France
[40] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[41] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[42] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Phys, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[43] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[44] Muhlenberg Coll, Allentown, PA 18104 USA
[45] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Kyonggido, South Korea
[46] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193, Japan
[47] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[48] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[49] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[50] Univ Paris 11, IPN Orsay, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91406 Orsay, France
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 82卷 / 11期
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会; 日本学术振兴会; 以色列科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
SIVERS ASYMMETRIES; ANALYZING POWER; SCATTERING; MOMENTUM; COLLINS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.112008
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report the first measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries in J/psi production from transversely polarized p + p collisions at root s = 200 GeV with data taken by the PHENIX experiment in 2006 and 2008. The measurement was performed over the rapidity ranges 1.2 < vertical bar y vertical bar < 2.2 and vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.35 for transverse momenta up to 6 GeV/c. J/psi production at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is dominated by processes involving initial-state gluons, and transverse single-spin asymmetries of the J/psi can provide access to gluon dynamics within the nucleon. Such asymmetries may also shed light on the long-standing question in QCD of the J/psi production mechanism. Asymmetries were obtained as a function of J/psi transverse momentum and Feynman-x, with a value of -0.086 +/- 0.026(stat) +/- 0.003(syst) in the forward region. This result suggests possible nonzero trigluon correlation functions in transversely polarized protons and, if well defined in this reaction, a nonzero gluon Sivers distribution function.
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