Single Transverse-Spin Asymmetry in Very Forward and Very Backward Neutral Particle Production for Polarized Proton Collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV

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dc.creatorFukao, Y.
dc.creatorTogawa, M.
dc.creatorBazilevsky, A.
dc.creatorBland, L. C.
dc.creatorBogdanov, A.
dc.creatorBunce, G.
dc.creatorDeshpande, A.
dc.creatorEn'yo, H.
dc.creatorFox, B. D.
dc.creatorGoto, Y.
dc.creatorHaggerty, J. S.
dc.creatorImai, K.
dc.creatorLenz, W.
dc.creatorvon Lintig, D.
dc.creatorLiu, M. X.
dc.creatorMakdisi, Y. I.
dc.creatorMuto, R.
dc.creatorNurushev, S. B.
dc.creatorPascuzzi, E.
dc.creatorPurschke, M. L.
dc.creatorSaito, N.
dc.creatorSakuma, F.
dc.creatorStoll, S. P.
dc.creatorTanida, K.
dc.creatorTojo, J.
dc.creatorWatanabe, Y.
dc.creatorWoody, C. L.
dc.date2006-10-11
dc.date2007-05-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:04:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:04:34Z
dc.descriptionIn the 2001-2002 running period of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), transversely polarized protons were accelerated to 100 GeV for the first time, with collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV. We present results from this run for single transverse spin asymmetries for inclusive production of neutral pions, photons and neutrons of the energy region 20 - 100 GeV for forward and backward production for angles between 0.3 mrad and 2.2 mrad with respect to the polarized proton direction. An asymmetry of A_N = (-0.090 +- 0.006 +- 0.009) x (1.0^{+0.47}_{-0.24}) was observed for forward neutron production, where the errors are statistical and systematic, and the scale error is from the beam polarization uncertainty. The forward photon and pi^0, and backward neutron, photon, and pi^0 asymmetries were consistent with zero. The large neutron asymmetry indicates a strong interference between a spin-flip amplitude, such as one pion exchange which dominates lower energy neutron production, and remaining spin non-flip amplitudes such as Reggeon exchange.
dc.description6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0610030
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0610030
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B650:325-330,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.05.049
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188938
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleSingle Transverse-Spin Asymmetry in Very Forward and Very Backward Neutral Particle Production for Polarized Proton Collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV
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