CP-violation in high-energy collisions of polarized protons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-17 v3
Abstract
We study the possibility of a large CP/T-violation in lepton pair production in the collisions of polarized protons at RHIC-BNL. We propose the single transverse spin asymmetry which quantifies the possible CP/T-violating effect in this reaction as a sensitive indicator of physics beyond the standard model(SM). We consider two examples of mechanisms beyond the SM which can generate a non-zero asymmetry of this type. They rely on the R-parity violating interactions of supersymmetric models and on phenomenological tensor interactions. We estimate the prospects for observing this effect in future experiments.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912529,
title = {CP-violation in high-energy collisions of polarized protons},
author = {Sergey Kovalenko and Ivan Schmidt and Jacques Soffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912529},
year = {2014}
}
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11 pages, 1 Postscript figure