Longitudinal and transverse spin asymmetries for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV

0385121 - ÚJF 2013 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Adamczyk, L. - Agakishiev, G. - Aggarwal, M. M. - Ahammed, Z. - Alakhverdyants, A. V. - Alekseev, I. - Alford, J. - Anderson, B. D. - Anson, C. - Barnovská, Zuzana - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Chaloupka, Petr - Chung, Paul - Hajková, O. - Kapitán, Jan - Pachr, M. - Rusňák, Jan - Šumbera, Michal - Tlustý, David … Total 373 authors
Longitudinal and transverse spin asymmetries for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV.
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. Roč. 86, č. 3 (2012), s. 032006. ISSN 1550-7998
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LA09013
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : jet production * hadron production * spin assymmetry
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders
Impact factor: 4.691, year: 2012

We report STAR measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A(LL), the transverse singlespin asymmetry A(N), and the transverse double-spin asymmetries A(Sigma) and A(TT) for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p + p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 200 GeV. The data represent integrated luminosities of 7.6 pb(-1) with longitudinal polarization and 1.8 pb(-1) with transverse polarization, with 50%-55% beam polarization, and were recorded in 2005 and 2006. No evidence is found for the existence of statistically significant jet A(N), A(Sigma), or A(TT) at mid-rapidity. Recent model calculations indicate the A(N) results may provide new limits on the gluon Sivers distribution in the proton. The asymmetry A(LL) significantly improves the knowledge of gluon polarization in the nucleon.
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