Transverse spin transfer to $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200\,\mathrm{GeV}$
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2018-12-05 v2
Abstract
The transverse spin transfer from polarized protons to and hyperons is expected to provide sensitivity to the transversity distribution of the nucleon and to the transversely polarized fragmentation functions. We report the first measurement of the transverse spin transfer to and along the polarization direction of the fragmenting quark, , in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at with the STAR detector at RHIC. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of and cover the pseudorapidity range and transverse momenta up to . The dependence on and are presented. The results are found to be comparable with a model prediction, and are also consistent with zero within uncertainties.
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@article{arxiv.1808.08000,
title = {Transverse spin transfer to $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200\,\mathrm{GeV}$},
author = {STAR Collaboration and J. Adam and L. Adamczyk and J. R. Adams and J. K. Adkins and G. Agakishiev and M. M. Aggarwal and Z. Ahammed and I. Alekseev and D. M. Anderson and R. Aoyama and A. Aparin and D. Arkhipkin and E. C. Aschenauer and M. U. Ashraf and F. Atetalla and A. Attri and G. S. Averichev and X. Bai and V. Bairathi and K. Barish and A. J. Bassill and A. Behera and R. Bellwied and A. Bhasin and A. K. Bhati and J. Bielcik and J. Bielcikova and L. C. Bland and I. G. Bordyuzhin and J. D. Brandenburg and A. V. Brandin and D. Brown and J. Bryslawskyj and I. Bunzarov and J. Butterworth and H. Caines and M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez and D. Cebra and I. Chakaberia and P. Chaloupka and B. K. Chan and F-H. Chang and Z. Chang and N. Chankova-Bunzarova and A. Chatterjee and S. Chattopadhyay and J. H. Chen and X. Chen and X. Chen and J. Cheng and M. Cherney and W. Christie and G. Contin and H. J. Crawford and M. Csanad and S. Das and T. G. Dedovich and I. M. Deppner and A. A. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08000},
year = {2018}
}
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8 pages, 4 figures, version to appear in Physical Review D