Accessing Transversity in Double-Spin Asymmetries at the BNL-RHIC

Jacques Soffer; Marco Stratmann; Werner Vogelsang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.114024

Accessing Transversity in Double-Spin Asymmetries at the BNL-RHIC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Authors: Jacques Soffer , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

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Abstract

We give upper bounds for transverse double-spin asymmetries in polarized proton-proton collisions by saturating the positivity constraint for the transversity densities at a low hadronic resolution scale. We consider prompt photon, jet, pion, and heavy flavor production at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Estimates of the expected statistical accuracy for such measurements are presented, taking into account the acceptance of the RHIC detectors.

Keywords

transversity double-spin asymmetries polarized proton-proton collisions BNL-RHIC positivity constraint

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204058,
  title  = {Accessing Transversity in Double-Spin Asymmetries at the BNL-RHIC},
  author = {Jacques Soffer and Marco Stratmann and Werner Vogelsang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204058},
  year   = {2009}
}