BARC/PUB/2022/0351

 
 

Transverse-single-spin asymmetries of charged pions at midrapidity in transversely polarized p+p collisions at √s=200 GeV

 
     
 
Author(s)

Acharya, U. A.; Aidala, C.; Akiba, Y.; Mishra, D. K.; Shukla, P.; and others
(BARC)

Source

Physical Review D, 2022. Vol. 105 (3): pp. 032003.1-032003.8

ABSTRACT

In 2015, the PHENIX Collaboration has measured single-spin asymmetries for charged pions in transversely polarized p + p collisions at the center-of-mass energy of √s = 200 GeV. The pions were detected at central rapidities of lηl < 0.35. The single-spin asymmetries are consistent with zero for each charge individually, as well as consistent with the previously published neutral-pion asymmetries in the same rapidity range. However, they show a slight indication of charge-dependent differences which may suggest a flavor dependence in the underlying mechanisms that create these asymmetries.

 
 
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