The longitudinal and transverse spin transfers to ( ) hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions are expected to be sensitive to the helicity and transversity distributions, respectively, of (anti)strange quarks in the proton, and to the corresponding polarized fragmentation functions. We report improved measurements of the longitudinal spin transfer coefficient, , and the transverse spin transfer coefficient, , to and in polarized proton-proton collisions at by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The dataset includes longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions with an integrated luminosity of , and transversely polarized proton-proton collisions with a similar integrated luminosity. Both datasets have about twice the statistics of previous results and cover a kinematic range of and transverse momentum up to . We also report the first measurements of the hyperon spin transfer coefficients and as a function of the fractional jet momentum carried by the hyperon, which can provide more direct constraints on the polarized fragmentation functions.
Abdulhamid, M. I., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Ball Cap, J. G., Barish, K., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., ... Zyzak, M. (2024). Longitudinal and transverse spin transfer to <math display='inline'> <mi mathvariant='normal'>Λ</mi> </math> and <math display='inline'> <mover accent='true'> <mi mathvariant='normal'>Λ</mi> <mo stretchy='false'>¯</mo> </mover> </math> hyperons in polarized <math display='inline'> <mi>p</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>p</mi> </math> collisions at <math display='inline'> <msqrt> <mi>s</mi> </msqrt> <mo>=</mo> <mn>200</mn> <mtext> </mtext> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>GeV</mi> </math>. Physical Review. D., 109(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.012004
@article{osti_2278863,
author = {Abdulhamid, M. I. and Aboona, B. E. and Adam, J. and Adamczyk, L. and Adams, J. R. and Aggarwal, I. and Aggarwal, M. M. and Ahammed, Z. and Anderson, D. M. and Aschenauer, E. C. and others},
title = {Longitudinal and transverse spin transfer to <math display='inline'> <mi mathvariant='normal'>Λ</mi> </math> and <math display='inline'> <mover accent='true'> <mi mathvariant='normal'>Λ</mi> <mo stretchy='false'>¯</mo> </mover> </math> hyperons in polarized <math display='inline'> <mi>p</mi> <mo>+</mo> <mi>p</mi> </math> collisions at <math display='inline'> <msqrt> <mi>s</mi> </msqrt> <mo>=</mo> <mn>200</mn> <mtext> </mtext> <mtext> </mtext> <mi>GeV</mi> </math>},
annote = { The longitudinal and transverse spin transfers to Λ ( Λ ¯ ) hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions are expected to be sensitive to the helicity and transversity distributions, respectively, of (anti)strange quarks in the proton, and to the corresponding polarized fragmentation functions. We report improved measurements of the longitudinal spin transfer coefficient, D L L , and the transverse spin transfer coefficient, D T T , to Λ and Λ ¯ in polarized proton-proton collisions at s = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The dataset includes longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions with an integrated luminosity of 52 pb − 1 , and transversely polarized proton-proton collisions with a similar integrated luminosity. Both datasets have about twice the statistics of previous results and cover a kinematic range of | η Λ ( Λ ¯ ) | 1.2 and transverse momentum p T , Λ ( Λ ¯ ) up to 8 GeV / c . We also report the first measurements of the hyperon spin transfer coefficients D L L and D T T as a function of the fractional jet momentum z carried by the hyperon, which can provide more direct constraints on the polarized fragmentation functions. Published by the American Physical Society 2024 },
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.109.012004},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2278863},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
issn = {ISSN 2470-0010},
number = {1},
volume = {109},
place = {United States},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
year = {2024},
month = {01}}
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