Abstract
We present the measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetry of weak boson production in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at s=500 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The measured observable is sensitive to the Sivers function, one of the transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions, which is predicted to have the opposite sign in proton-proton collisions from that observed in deep inelastic lepton-proton scattering. These data provide the first experimental investigation of the nonuniversality of the Sivers function, fundamental to our understanding of QCD.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 132301 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 116 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. NSF, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, NNSFC, CAS, MoST and MoE of China, the National Research Foundation of Korea, GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, FIAS of Germany, DAE, DST, and UGC of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation (NRF-2012004024), the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, and RosAtom of Russia.
Funders | Funder number |
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RosAtom of Russia | |
National Science Foundation | 1352081, 1206009, 1505716 |
Office of Science | |
Nuclear Physics | |
National Research Foundation | NRF-2012004024 |
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | |
University Grants Commission | |
Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy | |
Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China | |
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta | |
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation | |
Narodowe Centrum Nauki |