Longitudinal double-spin asymmetries for pi(0)s in the forward direction for 510 GeV polarized pp collisions



Adam, J, Adamczyk, L, Adams, JR, Adkins, JK, Agakishiev, G, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Ajitanand, NN, Alekseev, I, Anderson, DM
et al (show 338 more authors) (2018) Longitudinal double-spin asymmetries for pi(0)s in the forward direction for 510 GeV polarized pp collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 98 (3). 032013-.

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Abstract

The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, for neutral pions produced at forward directions in polarized proton-proton collisions, at a center-of-mass energy of $510$ GeV. Results are given for transverse momenta in the range $2<p_{T}<10$ GeV/$c$ within two regions of pseudorapidity that span $2.65<\eta<3.9$. These results are sensitive to the polarized gluon parton distribution function, $\Delta g(x)$, down to the region of Bjorken $x \sim 10^{-3}$. The asymmetries observed are less than $\pm 5 \cdot 10^{-3}$ in magnitude, and will help constrain the contribution to the spin of the proton from polarized gluons at low $x$, when combined with other measurements as part of a global analysis.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex, nucl-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 07 May 2019 10:14
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 00:50
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.032013
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.032013
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3040048