Transverse single-spin asymmetry of midrapidity π0 and η mesons in p+Au and p+Al collisions at sNN =200 GeV

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Abstract

Presented are the first measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries (AN) for neutral pions and eta mesons in p+Au and p+Al collisions at sNN=200 GeV in the pseudorapidity range |η|<0.35 with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The asymmetries are consistent with zero, similar to those for midrapidity neutral pions and eta mesons produced in p+p collisions. These measurements show no evidence of additional effects that could potentially arise from the more complex partonic environment present in proton-nucleus collisions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number112004
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume107
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2023

Funding

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 (USA), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan), 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), the 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), Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Agency of Atomic Energy (Russia), VR and Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden), University of Zambia, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (Zambia), the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, the Hungarian American Enterprise Scholarship Fund, the US-Hungarian Fulbright Foundation, and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

FundersFunder number
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
Government of the Republic of Zambia
Research Foundation of SUNY
US Civilian Research and Development Foundation
US-Hungarian Fulbright Foundation
University of Zambia
Wallenberg Foundation
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Nuclear Physics
Vanderbilt University
College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Russian Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Education
Haridus- ja Teadusministeerium
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
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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