Transverse spin transfer to Λ and Λ ¯ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at s = 200     GeV

Adam, J.; Adamczyk, L.; Adams, J. R.; Adkins, J. K.; Agakishiev, G.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Ahammed, Z.; Alekseev, I.; Anderson, D. M.; Aoyama, R.; Aparin, A.; Arkhipkin, D.; Aschenauer, E. C.; Ashraf, M. U.; Atetalla, F.; Attri, A.; Averichev, G. S.; Bai, X.; Bairathi, V.; Barish, K.; Bassill, A. J.; Behera, A.; Bellwied, R.; Bhasin, A.; Bhati, A. K.; Bielcik, J.; Bielcikova, J.; Bland, L. C.; Bordyuzhin, I. G.; Brandenburg, J. D.; Brandin, A. V.; Brown, D.; Bryslawskyj, J.; Bunzarov, I.; Butterworth, J.; Caines, H.; Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca; Cebra, D.; Chakaberia, I.; Chaloupka, P.; Chan, B. K.; Chang, F-H.; Chang, Z.; Chankova-Bunzarova, N.; Chatterjee, A.; Chattopadhyay, S.; Chen, J. H.; Chen, X.; Chen, X.; Cheng, J.; Cherney, M.; Christie, W.; Contin, G.; Crawford, H. J.; Csanad, M.; Das, S.; Dedovich, T. G.; Deppner, I. M.; Derevschikov, A. A.; Didenko, L.; Dilks, C.; Dong, X.; Drachenberg, J. L.; Dunlop, J. C.; Efimov, L. G.; Elsey, N.; Engelage, J.; Eppley, G.; Esha, R.; Esumi, S.; Evdokimov, O.; Ewigleben, J.; Eyser, O.; Fatemi, R.; Fazio, S.; Federic, P.; Federicova, P.; Fedorisin, J.; Filip, P.; Finch, E.; Fisyak, Y.; Flores, C. E.; Fulek, L.; Gagliardi, C. A.; Galatyuk, T.; Geurts, F.; Gibson, A.; Grosnick, D.; Gunarathne, D. S.; Guo, Y.; Gupta, A.; Guryn, W.; Hamad, A. I.; Hamed, A.; Harlenderova, A.; Harris, J. W.; He, L.; Heppelmann, S.; Heppelmann, S.; Herrmann, N.; Hirsch, A.; Holub, L.; Hong, Y.; Horvat, S.; Huang, B.; Huang, H. Z.; Huang, S. L.; Huang, T.; Huang, X.; Humanic, T. J.; Huo, P.; Igo, G.; Jacobs, W. W.; Jentsch, A.; Jia, J.; Jiang, K.; Jowzaee, S.; Ju, X.; Judd, E. G.; Kabana, S.; Kagamaster, S.; Kalinkin, D.; Kang, K.; Kapukchyan, D.; Kauder, K.; Ke, H. W.; Keane, D.; Kechechyan, A.; Kikoła, D. P.; Kim, C.; Kinghorn, T. A.; Kisel, I.; Kisiel, A.; Kochenda, L.; Kosarzewski, L. K.; Kraishan, A. F.; Kramarik, L.; Krauth, L.; Kravtsov, P.; Krueger, K.; Kulathunga, N.; Kumar, L.; Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam; Kvapil, J.; Kwasizur, J. H.; Lacey, R.; Landgraf, J. M.; Lauret, J.; Lebedev, A.; Lednicky, R.; Lee, J. H.; Li, C.; Li, W.; Li, X.; Li, Y.; Liang, Y.; Lidrych, J.; Lin, T.; Lipiec, A.; Lisa, M. A.; Liu, F.; Liu, H.; Liu, P.; Liu, P.; Liu, Y.; Liu, Z.; Ljubicic, T.; Llope, W. J.; Lomnitz, M.; Longacre, R. S.; Luo, S.; Luo, X.; Ma, G. L.; Ma, L.; Ma, R.; Ma, Y. G.; Magdy, N.; Majka, R.; Mallick, D.; Margetis, S.; Markert, C.; Matis, H. S.; Matonoha, O.; Mazer, J. A.; Meehan, K.; Mei, J. C.; Minaev, N. G.; Mioduszewski, S.; Mishra, D.; Mohanty, B.; Mondal, M. M.; Mooney, I.; Morozov, D. A.; Nasim, Md.; Negrete, J. D.; Nelson, J. M.; Nemes, D. B.; Nie, M.; Nigmatkulov, G.; Niida, T.; Nogach, L. V.; Nonaka, T.; Odyniec, G.; Ogawa, A.; Oh, K.; Oh, S.; Okorokov, V. A.; Olvitt, D.; Page, B. S.; Pak, R.; Panebratsev, Y.; Pawlik, B.; Pei, H.; Perkins, C.; Pinter, R. L.; Pluta, J.; Porter, J.; Posik, M.; Pruthi, N. K.; Przybycien, M.; Putschke, J.; Quintero, A.; Radhakrishnan, S. K.; Ramachandran, S.; Ray, R. L.; Reed, R.; Ritter, H. G.; Roberts, J. B.; Rogachevskiy, O. V.; Romero, J. L.; Ruan, L.; Rusnak, J.; Rusnakova, O.; Sahoo, N. R.; Sahu, P. K.; Salur, S.; Sandweiss, J.; Schambach, J.; Schmah, A. M.; Schmidke, W. B.; Schmitz, N.; Schweid, B. R.; Seck, F.; Seger, J.; Sergeeva, M.; Seto, R.; Seyboth, P.; Shah, N.; Shahaliev, E.; Shanmuganathan, P. V.; Shao, M.; Shen, F.; Shen, W. Q.; Shi, S. S.; Shou, Q. Y.; Sichtermann, E. P.; Siejka, S.; Sikora, R.; Simko, M.; Singh, J.; Singha, S.; Smirnov, D.; Smirnov, N.; Solyst, W.; Sorensen, P.; Spinka, H. M.; Srivastava, B.; Stanislaus, T. D. S.; Stewart, D. J.; Strikhanov, M.; Stringfellow, B.; Suaide, A. A. P.; Sugiura, T.; Sumbera, M.; Summa, B.; Sun, X. M.; Sun, X.; Sun, Y.; Surrow, B.; Svirida, D. N.; Szymanski, P.; Tang, A. H.; Tang, Z.; Taranenko, A.; Tarnowsky, T.; Thomas, J. H.; Timmins, A. R.; Tlusty, D.; Todoroki, T.; Tokarev, M.; Tomkiel, C. A.; Trentalange, S.; Tribble, R. E.; Tribedy, P.; Tripathy, S. K.; Tsai, O. D.; Tu, B.; Ullrich, T.; Underwood, D. G.; Upsal, I.; Van Buren, G.; Vanek, J.; Vasiliev, A. N.; Vassiliev, I.; Videbæk, F.; Vokal, S.; Voloshin, S. A.; Vossen, A.; Wang, F.; Wang, G.; Wang, P.; Wang, Y.; Wang, Y.; Webb, J. C.; Wen, L.; Westfall, G. D.; Wieman, H.; Wissink, S. W.; Witt, R.; Wu, Y.; Xiao, Z. G.; Xie, G.; Xie, W.; Xu, J.; Xu, N.; Xu, Q. H.; Xu, Y. F.; Xu, Z.; Yang, C.; Yang, Q.; Yang, S.; Yang, Y.; Ye, Z.; Ye, Z.; Yi, L.; Yip, K.; Yoo, I. -K.; Yu, N.; Zbroszczyk, H.; Zha, W.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, L.; Zhang, S.; Zhang, S.; Zhang, X. P.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Zhao, J.; Zhong, C.; Zhou, C.; Zhu, X.; Zhu, Z.; Zyzak, M.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.091103

Title: Transverse spin transfer to $Λ$ and $\bar{Λ}$ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

Journal Article · Thu Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.091103· OSTI ID:1483917

Adam, J.; Adamczyk, L.; Adams, J. R.; Adkins, J. K.; Agakishiev, G.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Ahammed, Z.; Alekseev, I.; Anderson, D. M.; Aoyama, R.; Aparin, A.; Arkhipkin, D.; Aschenauer, E. C.; Ashraf, M. U.; Atetalla, F.; Attri, A.; Averichev, G. S.; Bai, X.; Bairathi, V.; Barish, K. more »

Here, the transverse spin transfer from polarized protons to Λ and Λ¯ hyperons is expected to provide sensitivity to the transversity distribution of the nucleon and to the transversely polarized fragmentation functions. We report the first measurement of the transverse spin transfer to Λ and Λ¯ along the polarization direction of the fragmenting quark, D_TT, in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at √s = 200 GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC. The data correspond t o an integrated luminosity of 18 pb^–1 and cover the pseudorapidity range |η| < 1 . 2 and transverse momenta p_T up to 8GeV/c. The dependence on p_T and η are presented. The D_TT results are found to be comparable with a model prediction, and are also consistent with zero within uncertainties.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Contributing Organization:: STAR Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1483917

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1468773; OSTI ID: 1468774; OSTI ID: 1480982; OSTI ID: 1495046

Report Number(s):: BNL-209018-2018-JAAM; BNL-209019-2018-JAAM; BNL-209344-2018-JAAM; PRVDAQ; 091103

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 98 Journal Issue: 9; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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