Physics Letters B (Nov 2015)
Cross sections and transverse single-spin asymmetries in forward jet production from proton collisions at s=500 GeV
- L.C. Bland,
- E.J. Brash,
- H.J. Crawford,
- A.A. Derevschikov,
- K.A. Drees,
- J. Engelage,
- C. Folz,
- M.K. Jones,
- E.G. Judd,
- X. Li,
- N.K. Liyanage,
- Y. Makdisi,
- N.G. Minaev,
- R.N. Munroe,
- L. Nogach,
- A. Ogawa,
- C.F. Perdrisat,
- C. Perkins,
- M. Planinic,
- V. Punjabi,
- G. Schnell,
- G. Simatovic,
- T.G. Throwe,
- C. Van Hulse,
- A.N. Vasiliev
Affiliations
- L.C. Bland
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- E.J. Brash
- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
- H.J. Crawford
- University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- A.A. Derevschikov
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
- K.A. Drees
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- J. Engelage
- University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- C. Folz
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- M.K. Jones
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
- E.G. Judd
- University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- X. Li
- Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
- N.K. Liyanage
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Y. Makdisi
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- N.G. Minaev
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
- R.N. Munroe
- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
- L. Nogach
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
- A. Ogawa
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- C.F. Perdrisat
- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA
- C. Perkins
- University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- M. Planinic
- University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR-10002, Croatia
- V. Punjabi
- Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, USA
- G. Schnell
- Department of Theoretical Physics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- G. Simatovic
- University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR-10002, Croatia
- T.G. Throwe
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- C. Van Hulse
- Department of Theoretical Physics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- A.N. Vasiliev
- Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.001
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 750,
no. C
pp. 660 – 665
Abstract
Measurements of the production of forward jets from transversely polarized proton collisions at s=500 GeV conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are reported. Our measured jet cross section is consistent with hard scattering expectations. Our measured analyzing power for forward jet production is small and positive, and provides constraints on the Sivers functions that are related to partonic orbital angular momentum through theoretical models.
