Measurement of charged pion double spin asymmetries at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at s =510 GeV

(PHENIX Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.032001

Measurement of charged pion double spin asymmetries at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at s =510 GeV

(PHENIX Collaboration)

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The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the longitudinal double spin asymmetries, ALL, for charged pions at midrapidity (|η|<0.35) in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at s=510 GeV. These measurements are sensitive to the gluon spin contribution to the total spin of the proton in the parton momentum fraction x range between 0.04 and 0.09. One can infer the sign of the gluon polarization from the ordering of pion asymmetries with charge alone. The asymmetries are found to be consistent with global quantum-chromodynamics fits of deep-inelastic scattering and data at s=200 GeV, which show a nonzero positive contribution of gluon spin to the proton spin.

Original language	English
Article number	032001
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	102
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.032001
State	Published - Aug 1 2020
Externally published	Yes

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We thank the staff of the Collider-Accelerator and Physics Departments at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the staff of the other PHENIX participating institutions for their vital contributions. We acknowledge support from the Office of Nuclear Physics in the Office of Science of the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, Abilene Christian University Research Council, Research Foundation of SUNY, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University (U.S.A.), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil), Natural Science Foundation of China (People’s Republic of China), Croatian Science Foundation and Ministry of Science and Education (Croatia), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany), J. Bolyai Research Scholarship, EFOP, the New National Excellence Program (ÚNKP), NKFIH, and OTKA (Hungary), Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology (India), Israel Science Foundation (Israel), Basic Science Research and SRC(CENuM) Programs through NRF funded by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and ICT (Korea). Physics Department, Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan), Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Agency of Atomic Energy (Russia), VR and Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden), the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, the Hungarian American Enterprise Scholarship Fund, the U.S.-Hungarian Fulbright Foundation, and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

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Abilene Christian University Research Council
Basic Science Research
CENuM
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology (India), Israel Science Foundation
Research Foundation of SUNY
U.S.-Hungarian Fulbright Foundation
Wallenberg Foundation
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Semiconductor Research Corporation
CRDF Global
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Nuclear Physics
Vanderbilt University
Lahore University of Management Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Education
Haridus- ja Teadusministeerium
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning
National Research Foundation of Korea
Vetenskapsrådet
Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost
Ministry of Education and Science
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation

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Measurement of charged pion double spin asymmetries at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at s =510 GeV

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