Transverse spin-dependent azimuthal correlations of charged pion pairs measured in p↑ + p collisions at s=500 GeV

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Title: Transverse spin-dependent azimuthal correlations of charged pion pairs measured in p↑ + p collisions at s=500 GeV
Authors: L. Adamczyk, J.R. Adams, J.K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, N.N. Ajitanand, I. Alekseev, D.M. Anderson, R. Aoyama, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E.C. Aschenauer, M.U. Ashraf, A. Attri, G.S. Averichev, V. Bairathi, K. Barish, A. Behera, R. Bellwied, A. Bhasin, A.K. Bhati, P. Bhattarai, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L.C. Bland, I.G. Bordyuzhin, J. Bouchet, J.D. Brandenburg, A.V. Brandin, D. Brown, J. Bryslawskyj, I. Bunzarov, J. Butterworth, H. Caines, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, J.M. Campbell, D. Cebra, I. Chakaberia, P. Chaloupka, Z. Chang, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, A. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, J.H. Chen, X. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, W. Christie, G. Contin, H.J. Crawford, T.G. Dedovich, J. Deng, I.M. Deppner, A.A. Derevschikov, L. Didenko, C. Dilks, X. Dong, J.L. Drachenberg, J.E. Draper, J.C. Dunlop, L.G. Efimov, N. Elsey, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, R. Esha, S. Esumi, O. Evdokimov, J. Ewigleben, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, P. Federic, P. Federicova, J. Fedorisin, Z. Feng, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C.E. Flores, J. Fujita, L. Fulek, C.A. Gagliardi, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, M. Girard, D. Grosnick, D.S. Gunarathne, Y. Guo, A. Gupta, W. Guryn, A.I. Hamad, A. Hamed, A. Harlenderova, J.W. Harris, L. He, S. Heppelmann, N. Herrmann, A. Hirsch, S. Horvat, X. Huang, H.Z. Huang, T. Huang, B. Huang, T.J. Humanic, P. Huo, G. Igo, W.W. Jacobs, A. Jentsch, J. Jia, K. Jiang, S. Jowzaee, E.G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, D. Kapukchyan, K. Kauder, H.W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, Z. Khan, D.P. Kikoła, C. Kim, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, L. Kochenda, M. Kocmanek, T. Kollegger, L.K. Kosarzewski, A.F. Kraishan, L. Krauth, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, N. Kulathunga, L. Kumar, J. Kvapil, J.H. Kwasizur, R. Lacey, J.M. Landgraf, K.D. Landry, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J.H. Lee, W. Li, C. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, J. Lidrych, T. Lin, M.A. Lisa, Y. Liu, H. Liu, F. Liu, P. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W.J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R.S. Longacre, X. Luo, S. Luo, L. Ma, Y.G. Ma, G.L. Ma, R. Ma, N. Magdy, R. Majka, D. Mallick, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H.S. Matis, D. Mayes, K. Meehan, J.C. Mei, Z.W. Miller, N.G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, D. Mishra, S. Mizuno, B. Mohanty, M.M. Mondal, D.A. Morozov, M.K. Mustafa, Md. Nasim, T.K. Nayak, J.M. Nelson, D.B. Nemes, M. Nie, G. Nigmatkulov, T. Niida, L.V. Nogach, T. Nonaka, S.B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, V.A. Okorokov, D. Olvitt, Jr., B.S. Page, R. Pak, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, J. Pluta, K. Poniatowska, J. Porter, M. Posik, N.K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, J. Putschke, A. Quintero, S. Ramachandran, R.L. Ray, R. Reed, M.J. Rehbein, H.G. Ritter, J.B. Roberts, O.V. Rogachevskiy, J.L. Romero, J.D. Roth, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N.R. Sahoo, P.K. Sahu, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, M. Saur, J. Schambach, A.M. Schmah, W.B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, B.R. Schweid, J. Seger, M. Sergeeva, R. Seto, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P.V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, W.Q. Shen, S.S. Shi, Z. Shi, Q.Y. Shou, E.P. Sichtermann, R. Sikora, M. Simko, S. Singha, M.J. Skoby, N. Smirnov, D. Smirnov, W. Solyst, P. Sorensen, H.M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T.D.S. Stanislaus, D.J. Stewart, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A.A.P. Suaide, T. Sugiura, M. Sumbera, B. Summa, X. Sun, X.M. Sun, Y. Sun, B. Surrow, D.N. Svirida, Z. Tang, A.H. Tang, A. Taranenko, T. Tarnowsky, A. Tawfik, J. Thäder, J.H. Thomas, A.R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, T. Todoroki, M. Tokarev, S. Trentalange, R.E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, S.K. Tripathy, B.A. Trzeciak, O.D. Tsai, B. Tu, T. Ullrich, D.G. Underwood, I. Upsal, G. Van Buren, G. van Nieuwenhuizen, A.N. Vasiliev, F. Videbæk, S. Vokal, S.A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, G. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Wang, G. Webb, J.C. Webb, L. Wen, G.D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S.W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. Wu, Z.G. Xiao, G. Xie, W. Xie, N. Xu, Y.F. Xu, Q.H. Xu, Z. Xu, Y. Yang, C. Yang, S. Yang, Q. Yang, Z. Ye, L. Yi, K. Yip, I.-K. Yoo, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, J.B. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang, L. Zhang, X.P. Zhang, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, C. Zhou, L. Zhou, X. Zhu, Z. Zhu, M. Zyzak
Source: Physics Letters B, Vol 780, Iss , Pp 332-339 (2018)
Publisher Information: Elsevier, 2018.
Publication Year: 2018
Collection: LCC:Physics
Subject Terms: Physics, QC1-999
More Details: The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, and is only loosely constrained by global fits to existing semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) data. In transversely polarized p↑+p collisions it can be accessed using transverse polarization dependent fragmentation functions which give rise to azimuthal correlations between the polarization of the struck parton and the final state scalar mesons.This letter reports on spin dependent di-hadron correlations measured by the STAR experiment. The new dataset corresponds to 25 pb−1 integrated luminosity of p↑+p collisions at s=500 GeV, an increase of more than a factor of ten compared to our previous measurement at s=200 GeV. Non-zero asymmetries sensitive to transversity are observed at a Q2 of several hundred GeV and are found to be consistent with the former measurement and a model calculation. We expect that these data will enable an extraction of transversity with comparable precision to current SIDIS datasets but at much higher momentum transfers where subleading effects are suppressed. Keywords: Transversity, Di-hadron correlations, Interference fragmentation function
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 0370-2693
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318301825; https://doaj.org/toc/0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.069
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/de9356c3633346229ee0b26e9399b1a7
Accession Number: edsdoj.9356c3633346229ee0b26e9399b1a7
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:03702693
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.069
Published in:Physics Letters B
Language:English