@article{50c801e5c050432e918a6b55d142b1ce,
title = "Nuclear Dependence of the Transverse-Single-Spin Asymmetry for Forward Neutron Production in Polarized p+A Collisions at sNN =200 GeV",
abstract = "During 2015, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provided collisions of transversely polarized protons with Au and Al nuclei for the first time, enabling the exploration of transverse-single-spin asymmetries with heavy nuclei. Large single-spin asymmetries in very forward neutron production have been previously observed in transversely polarized p+p collisions at RHIC, and the existing theoretical framework that was successful in describing the single-spin asymmetry in p+p collisions predicts only a moderate atomic-mass-number (A) dependence. In contrast, the asymmetries observed at RHIC in p+A collisions showed a surprisingly strong A dependence in inclusive forward neutron production. The observed asymmetry in p+Al collisions is much smaller, while the asymmetry in p+Au collisions is a factor of 3 larger in absolute value and of opposite sign. The interplay of different neutron production mechanisms is discussed as a possible explanation of the observed A dependence.",
author = "{PHENIX Collaboration} and C. Aidala and Y. Akiba and M. Alfred and V. Andrieux and K. Aoki and N. Apadula and H. Asano and C. Ayuso and B. Azmoun and V. Babintsev and A. Bagoly and Bandara, {N. S.} and Barish, {K. N.} and S. Bathe and A. Bazilevsky and M. Beaumier and R. Belmont and A. Berdnikov and Y. Berdnikov and Blau, {D. S.} and M. Boer and Bok, {J. S.} and Brooks, {M. L.} and J. Bryslawskyj and V. Bumazhnov and C. Butler and S. Campbell and {Canoa Roman}, V. and R. Cervantes and Chi, {C. Y.} and M. Chiu and Choi, {I. J.} and Choi, {J. B.} and Z. Citron and M. Connors and N. Cronin and M. Csan{\'a}d and T. Cs{\"o}rgo and Danley, {T. W.} and Daugherity, {M. S.} and G. David and K. Deblasio and K. Dehmelt and A. Denisov and A. Deshpande and Desmond, {E. J.} and A. Dion and D. Dixit and Lajoie, {J. G.} and Read, {K. F.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.022001",
language = "English",
volume = "120",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "2",
}