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Recent Longitudinal Spin Asymmetry Measurements for Inclusive Jet Production at STAR

We present measurements of the longitudinal spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, for the inclusive jet signal at STAR. The data presented here are mid-rapidity jets in the transverse momentum range of $5<pT<35$ GeV/c and come from polarized…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 David Staszak

The STAR W Program : New Results and Future Measurements

The production of $W^\pm$ bosons in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at RHIC provides a new means of studying the spin-flavour asymmetries of the proton sea quark spin distributions. Details of the W$^\pm$ event selection through the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-06-03 Joseph Seele

Transverse Spin Physics at COMPASS

The study of transverse spin effects is part of the scientific program of COMPASS, a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS. COMPASS investigates the transversity PDFs in semi-inclusive DIS, using a longitudinally polarized muon beam of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Federica Sozzi

An Integrated Tracker for STAR

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC studies the new state of matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions and the spin structure of the nucleon in collisions of polarized protons. In order to improve the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Frank Simon

Observation of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in $p^\uparrow+p$ at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV

We report the observation of transverse polarization-dependent azimuthal correlations in charged pion pair production with the STAR experiment in $p^\uparrow+p$ collisions at RHIC. These correlations directly probe quark transversity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-12-16 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , A. Banerjee , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , T. P. Burton , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calder'on de la Barca S'anchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , M. C. Cervantes , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , S. Gupta , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamad , A. Hamed , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , X. Huang , H. Z. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , K. Jiang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikola , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , I. Kulakov , L. Kumar , R. A. Kycia , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , C. Li , W. Li , Z. M. Li , Y. Li , X. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , Y. G. Ma , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , A. Manion , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , K. Meehan , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , A. Peterson , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , M. K. Sharma , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , M. J. Skoby , D. Smirnov , N. Smirnov , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stepanov , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , X. Sun , Z. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , N. Svirida , M. A. Szelezniak , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. N. Tawfik , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , R. Varma , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. C. Webb , G. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , Q. H. Xu , Z. Xu , H. Xu , N. Xu , Y. F. Xu , Q. Yang , Y. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , C. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Single-Spin Transverse Asymmetry in Neutral Pion and Charged Hadron Production at PHENIX

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has measured the single-spin transverse asymmetry ($A_{N}$) for neutral pion and non-identified charged hadron production at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Aidala

The STAR Forward Silicon Tracker

The Forward Silicon Tracker (FST) is a pivotal component of the forward upgrade of the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR), designed to discern hadron charge signs with a momentum resolution better than 30% for $0.2 < p_T < 2$ GeV/c in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-16 J. D. Brandenburg , Y. Chang , J. Dong , Y. He , Y. Hu , B. Huang , H. Huang , T. Huang , H. Li , M. Nie , R. Sharma , X. Sun , P. Tribedy , F. Videbæk , G. Visser , G. Wilks , P. Wang , G. Xie , G. Yan , Z. Ye , L. Yi , Y. Yang , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang

Study of freeze-out dynamics in STAR at RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program

The STAR detector at RHIC, due to its large uniform acceptance and excellent particle identification capabilities, has measured a variety of hadron species ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p$, $\bar{p}$, $K^{0}_{S}$, $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sabita Das

Results on Total and Elastic Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV Obtained with the STAR Detector at RHIC

We report the first results on differential, total and elastic cross sections in proton-proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. The data lwere obtained with the Roman Pot Detector subsystem of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-07 W. Guryn , B. Pawlik

Double Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Charged Pion Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV

A primary goal of the STAR Spin program at RHIC is the measurement of the polarized gluon distribution function $\Delta G$, which can be obtained from a global analysis incorporating measurements of the double spin asymmetry A_{LL} in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam Kocoloski

Recent results from STAR experiment in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 9.2 GeV

Theoretical models suggest that the Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD) phase diagram has a critical point demarcating the order of transition between the two phases: the hadron gas, in which the quarks are confined and the Quark-Gluon Plasma…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Debasish Das

Highlights from the STAR experiment

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) studies properties and phase transitions of nuclear matter in various nucleus-nucleus collisions at center-of-mass energies per nucleon collision $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$-200 GeV.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Zhenyu Ye

Identified Hadron Production from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan

A current focus at RHIC is the Beam Energy Scan to study the QCD phase diagram -- temperature ($T$) vs. baryon chemical potential ($\mu_{B}$). The STAR experiment has collected data for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 7.7 GeV, 11.5…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Lokesh Kumar

Underlying event measurements in $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 200 $ GeV at RHIC

Particle production sensitive to non-factorizable and non-perturbative processes that contribute to the underlying event associated with a high transverse momentum ($p_{T}$) jet in proton+proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV is studied…

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Single Spin Asymmetries on a transversely polarised proton target at COMPASS

COMPASS is a running fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS with a rich physics program focused on nucleon spin structure and on hadron spectroscopy. One of the main goals of the spin program is the measurement of the transverse spin…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Levorato

Pion, Kaon, and (Anti-) Proton Production in Au+Au Collisions at \srt = 62.4 GeV

We report on preliminary results of pion, kaon, and (anti-) proton transverse momentum spectra (-0.5 < y < 0) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=62.4$ GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC. The particle identification (PID) is achieved…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Ming Shao

Measurements of particle spectra in diffractive proton-proton collisions with the STAR detector at RHIC

We present the inclusive and identified particle (pion, proton and their antiparticle) production in Single Diffraction Dissociation and Central Diffraction processes with the STAR detector at RHIC. The forward-scattered proton(s) are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-13 Lukasz Fulek

Identified particle measurements at large transverse momenta from p+p to Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Measurements of various particle species over an extended momentum range provide a sensitive experimental tool for investigating particle production mechanisms in hadronic collisions. Comparison of the spectral shapes from different…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 R. S. Hollis

Absolute Polarization Measurements at RHIC in the Coulomb Nuclear Interference Region

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory provides polarized proton beams for the investigation of the nucleon spin structure. For polarimetry, carbon-proton and proton-proton scattering is used in the Coulomb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K. O. Eyser , I. Alekseev , A. Bravar , G. Bunce , S. Dhawan , R. Gill , W. Haeberli , H. Huang , O. Jinnouchi , Y. Makdisi , I. Nakagawa , A. Nass , H. Okada , E. Stephenson , D. Svirida , T. Wise , J. Wood , A. Zelenski

Performance of RHICf detector during operation in 2017

In the RHIC forward (RHICf) experiment, an operation with pp collisions was performed at $\sqrt{s}\,=\,$510 GeV from 24-27 June 2017. The performances, energy and position resolutions, trigger efficiency, stability, and background during…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-17 O. Adriani , E. Berti , L. Bonechi , R. D' Alessandro , Y. Goto , B. Hong , Y. Itow , K. Kasahara , M. H. Kim , H. Menjo , I. Nakagawa , T. Sako , N. Sakurai , K. Sato , R. Seidl , K. Tanida , S. Torii , A. Tricomi