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Bounds on Transverse Spin Asymmetries for Lambda Baryon Production in pp Collisions at BNL RHIC

We study inclusive Lambda hyperon production in pp collisions at BNL RHIC, with just one transversely polarized proton. We show that the measurement of the spin transfer between the initial proton and the produced Lambda is sensitive to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. de Florian , J. Soffer , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

Parton Dynamics at PHENIX

Investigating partonic interactions is one of the primary goals of the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). RHIC is specially tailored for studying intrinsic partonic spin-momentum correlations due to its unique…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 J. D. Osborn

Constraining the polarized gluon PDF in pp collisions at RHIC

The main focus of the physics program at PHENIX and STAR that makes use of RHIC's polarized proton beams is to figure out how and if at all the gluons inside protons are polarized, or to put it another way, do the spin 1 gluons prefer to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Frank Ellinghaus

Highlights from BNL and RHIC 2016

Highlights of news from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the period July 2015-2016 are presented. Transverse single spin asymmetries from polarized p+p collisions are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-05-31 M. J. Tannenbaum

Longitudinal parity-violating asymmetry in hadronic decays of weak bosons in polarized proton collisions

We investigate the possible measurement of parity-violating spin asymmetries in jet pair production in proton-proton collisions at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), with the goal to constrain longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Edmond L. Berger , Pavel M. Nadolsky

Transverse Spin at PHENIX: Results and Prospects

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as the world's first and only polarized proton collider, offers a unique environment in which to study the spin structure of the proton. In order to study the proton's transverse spin structure,…

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

Measurement of longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC

We report measurements of single- and double- spin asymmetries for $W^{\pm}$ and $Z/\gamma^*$ boson production in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 510$ GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The asymmetries for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-08-14 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , C. D. Anson , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , J. Balewski , A. Banerjee , D. R. Beavis , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , H. Bichsel , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , W. Borowski , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , S. G. Brovko , S. Bültmann , I. Bunzarov , T. P. Burton , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , R. Cendejas , M. C. Cervantes , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , H. F. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , A. Chikanian , W. Christie , J. Chwastowski , M. J. M. Codrington , G. Contin , J. G. Cramer , H. J. Crawford , X. Cui , S. Das , A. Davila Leyva , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , R. Derradi de Souza , S. Dhamija , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , F. Ding , P. Djawotho , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , K. S. Engle , G. Eppley , L. Eun , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , J. Fedorisin , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , C. A. Gagliardi , D. R. Gangadharan , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , S. Gliske , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , B. Haag , A. Hamed , L-X. Han , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , X. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , A. Kesich , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikola , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , J. Konzer , I. Koralt , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kotchenda , 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 , M. J. LeVine , C. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. M. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige Don , D. P. Mahapatra , R. Majka , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , T. S. McShane , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , A. Ohlson , V. Okorokov , E. W. Oldag , D. L. Olvitt , M. Pachr , B. S. Page , S. K. Pal , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pawlak , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , W. Peryt , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , P. R. Pujahari , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , C. K. Riley , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. F. Ross , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , E. Sangaline , 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 , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. N. Singaraju , M. J. Skoby , D. Smirnov , N. Smirnov , D. Solanki , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , J. R. Stevens , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , Z. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , T. J. M. Symons , M. A. Szelezniak , J. Takahashi , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , J. Turnau , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , J. A. Vanfossen, , R. Varma , G. M. S. Vasconcelos , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , A. Vossen , M. Wada , F. Wang , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , H. Xu , J. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , W. Yan , C. Yang , Y. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I-K. Yoo , N. Yu , Y. Zawisza , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. B. Zhang , J. L. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. P. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , X. Zhu , Y. H. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Double-transverse spin asymmetries at NLO

We report on a next-to-leading order QCD calculation of the cross section and the spin asymmetry for isolated large-p_T prompt photon production in collisions of transversely polarized protons. Corresponding measurements may be used at RHIC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mukherjee , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has a rich spin physics program aimed at exploring the spin structure of the proton with polarized proton beams. In addition to the currently accessible channels, heavy…

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

Heavy Quarkonium Production with Polarized Hadrons and Photons

We investigate the inclusive production of prompt J/psi mesons in polarized hadron-hadron and photon-hadron collisions in the factorization formalism of NRQCD. Numerical results are presented for BNL RHIC-Spin and the approved SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Klasen , B. A. Kniehl

Unveiling the Proton Spin Decomposition at a Future Electron-Ion Collider

We present a detailed assessment of how well a future Electron-Ion Collider could constrain helicity parton distributions in the nucleon and, therefore, unveil the role of the intrinsic spin of quarks and gluons in the proton's spin budget.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Elke C. Aschenauer , R. Sassot , M. Stratmann

Nuclear dependence of the transverse-single-spin asymmetry for forward neutron production in polarized $p$$+$$A$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV

During 2015 the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provided collisions of transversely polarized protons with Au and Al nuclei for the first time, enabling the exploration of transverse-single-spin asymmetries with heavy nuclei. Large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-10 C. Aidala , Y. Akiba , M. Alfred , V. Andrieux , K. Aoki , N. Apadula , H. Asano , C. Ayuso , B. Azmoun , V. Babintsev , A. Bagoly , N. S. Bandara , K. N. Barish , S. Bathe , A. Bazilevsky , M. Beaumier , R. Belmont , A. Berdnikov , Y. Berdnikov , D. S. Blau , M. Boer , J. S. Bok , M. L. Brooks , J. Bryslawskyj , V. Bumazhnov , C. Butler , S. Campbell , V. Canoa Roman , R. Cervantes , C. Y. Chi , M. Chiu , I. J. Choi , J. B. Choi , Z. Citron , M. Connors , N. Cronin , M. Csanád , T. Csörgő , T. W. Danley , M. S. Daugherity , G. David , K. DeBlasio , K. Dehmelt , A. Denisov , A. Deshpande , E. J. Desmond , A. Dion , D. Dixit , J. H. Do , A. Drees , K. A. Drees , M. Dumancic , J. M. Durham , A. Durum , T. Elder , A. Enokizono , H. En'yo , S. Esumi , B. Fadem , W. Fan , N. Feege , D. E. Fields , M. Finger , M. Finger, , S. L. Fokin , J. E. Frantz , A. Franz , A. D. Frawley , Y. Fukuda , C. Gal , P. Gallus , P. Garg , H. Ge , F. Giordano , Y. Goto , N. Grau , S. V. Greene , M. Grosse Perdekamp , T. Gunji , H. Guragain , T. Hachiya , J. S. Haggerty , K. I. Hahn , H. Hamagaki , H. F. Hamilton , S. Y. Han , J. Hanks , S. Hasegawa , T. O. S. Haseler , X. He , T. K. Hemmick , J. C. Hill , K. Hill , R. S. Hollis , K. Homma , B. Hong , T. Hoshino , N. Hotvedt , J. Huang , S. Huang , K. Imai , J. Imrek , M. Inaba , A. Iordanova , D. Isenhower , Y. Ito , D. Ivanishchev , B. V. Jacak , M. Jezghani , Z. Ji , X. Jiang , B. M. Johnson , V. Jorjadze , D. Jouan , D. S. Jumper , J. H. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , S. Karthas , D. Kawall , A. V. Kazantsev , V. Khachatryan , A. Khanzadeev , C. Kim , D. J. Kim , E. -J. Kim , M. Kim , M. H. Kim , D. Kincses , E. Kistenev , J. Klatsky , P. Kline , T. Koblesky , D. Kotov , S. Kudo , K. Kurita , Y. Kwon , J. G. Lajoie , E. O. Lallow , A. Lebedev , S. Lee , M. J. Leitch , Y. H. Leung , N. A. Lewis , X. Li , S. H. Lim , L. D. Liu , M. X. Liu , V-R Loggins , V. -R. Loggins , S. Lokos , K. Lovasz , D. Lynch , T. Majoros , Y. I. Makdisi , M. Makek , M. Malaev , V. I. Manko , E. Mannel , H. Masuda , M. McCumber , P. L. McGaughey , D. McGlinchey , C. McKinney , M. Mendoza , W. J. Metzger , A. C. Mignerey , D. E. Mihalik , A. Milov , D. K. Mishra , J. T. Mitchell , G. Mitsuka , S. Miyasaka , S. Mizuno , P. Montuenga , T. Moon , D. P. Morrison , S. I. M. Morrow , T. Murakami , J. Murata , K. Nagai , K. Nagashima , T. Nagashima , J. L. Nagle , M. I. Nagy , I. Nakagawa , H. Nakagomi , K. Nakano , C. Nattrass , T. Niida , R. Nouicer , T. Novák , N. Novitzky , R. Novotny , A. S. Nyanin , E. O'Brien , C. A. Ogilvie , J. D. Orjuela Koop , J. D. Osborn , A. Oskarsson , G. J. Ottino , K. Ozawa , V. Pantuev , V. Papavassiliou , J. S. Park , S. Park , S. F. Pate , M. Patel , W. Peng , D. V. Perepelitsa , G. D. N. Perera , D. Yu. Peressounko , C. E. PerezLara , J. Perry , R. Petti , M. Phipps , C. Pinkenburg , R. P. Pisani , A. Pun , M. L. Purschke , P. V. Radzevich , K. F. Read , D. Reynolds , V. Riabov , Y. Riabov , D. Richford , T. Rinn , S. D. Rolnick , M. Rosati , Z. Rowan , J. Runchey , A. S. Safonov , T. Sakaguchi , H. Sako , V. Samsonov , M. Sarsour , K. Sato , S. Sato , B. Schaefer , B. K. Schmoll , K. Sedgwick , R. Seidl , A. Sen , R. Seto , A. Sexton , D. Sharma , I. Shein , T. -A. Shibata , K. Shigaki , M. Shimomura , T. Shioya , P. Shukla , A. Sickles , C. L. Silva , D. Silvermyr , B. K. Singh , C. P. Singh , V. Singh , M. J. Skoby , M. Slunečka , K. L. Smith , M. Snowball , R. A. Soltz , W. E. Sondheim , S. P. Sorensen , I. V. Sourikova , P. W. Stankus , S. P. Stoll , T. Sugitate , A. Sukhanov , T. Sumita , J. Sun , S. Syed , J. Sziklai , A Takeda , K. Tanida , M. J. Tannenbaum , S. Tarafdar , G. Tarnai , R. Tieulent , A. Timilsina , T. Todoroki , M. Tomášek , C. L. Towell , R. S. Towell , I. Tserruya , Y. Ueda , B. Ujvari , H. W. van Hecke , S. Vazquez-Carson , J. Velkovska , M. Virius , V. Vrba , N. Vukman , X. R. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Watanabe , Y. S. Watanabe , C. P. Wong , C. L. Woody , C. Xu , Q. Xu , L. Xue , S. Yalcin , Y. L. Yamaguchi , H. Yamamoto , A. Yanovich , P. Yin , J. H. Yoo , I. Yoon , H. Yu , I. E. Yushmanov , W. A. Zajc , A. Zelenski , S. Zharko , L. Zou

Recent Results in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at STAR

RHIC is the only spin-polarized proton collider ever built. With a special optics run of $\beta^\star \approx 22$ m STAR detector system is suitable for an investigation of the spin dependence of elastic proton-proton scattering. This is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-07 Leszek Adamczyk

Structure of spin-dependent scattering amplitude and spin effects at small angles at RHIC energies

Spin-dependent pomeron effects are analyzed for elastic $pp$ scattering and calculations for spin-dependent differential cross sections, analyzing power and double-spin correlation parameters are carried out for the energy range of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 N. Akchurin , S. V. Goloskokov , O. V. Selyugin

Asymmetric parton distributions of the nucleon

This contribution to CIPANP 2012 highlights what we have learned about the asymmetric parton distributions of the nucleon over the past 20 years. These distributions include the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions describing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniel Boer

Plans for Spin Physics at RHIC

Polarized proton collisions will be studied at RHIC up to a total center of mass energy of 500 GeV, starting in 2002. An overview of the RHIC-spin program, and the critical components of the PHENIX and STAR detectors for spin experiments,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Bland

A Possible Fixed Target Programme for the Polarized HERA Proton Ring

The physics programme for a possible fixed target polarized nucleon-nucleon collision experiment aiming at studying the nucleon spin structure at HERA is described. The experiment named HERA-N could be realized using an internal polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Korotkov , W. -D. Nowak

Measurement of the Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry for Mid-rapidity Production of Neutral Pions in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV Center-of-Mass Energy

The spin structure of the proton has revealed itself to be extremely complex and is an area of ongoing research. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) inaugurated its operation as the first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christine Angela Aidala

Detect \Delta G at BNL-RHIC via Double Quarkonium Production

The double spin asymmetry for exclusive $J/\psi$ pair production in the polarized $p-p$ collisions at RHIC is investigated. Our study shows that the asymmetry in this process is measurable at RHIC-SPIN experiments in the near future, and,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Jiro Kodaira , Cong-Feng Qiao

Prompt Photon Production in Polarized Hadron Collisions

We consider spin asymmetries for prompt photon production in collisions of longitudinally polarized hadrons. This reaction will be a key tool at the BNL-RHIC pp collider for determining the gluon spin density in a polarized proton. We study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner Vogelsang