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Double-helicity dependence of jet properties from dihadrons in longitudinally polarized p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV
Physical Review D
  • Andrew Adare, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Nathan C. Grau, Iowa State University
  • John C. Hill, Iowa State University
  • Todd Kempel, Iowa State University
  • John G. Lajoie, Iowa State University
  • Alexandre Lebedev, Iowa State University
  • Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University
  • H. Pei, Iowa State University
  • Marzia Rosati, Iowa State University
  • Alexey Yu. Semenov, Iowa State University
  • S. Skutnik, Iowa State University
  • Carla Vale, Iowa State University
  • Feng Wei, Iowa State University
  • et al.
  • PHENIX Collaboration, PHENIX Collaboration
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2010
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.012002
Abstract
It has been postulated that partonic orbital angular momentum can lead to a significant double-helicity dependence in the net transverse momentum of Drell-Yan dileptons produced in longitudinally polarized p + p collisions. Analogous effects are also expected for dijet production. If confirmed by experiment, this hypothesis, which is based on semiclassical arguments, could lead to a new approach for studying the contributions of orbital angular momentum to the proton spin. We report the first measurement of the double-helicity dependence of the dijet transverse momentum in longitudinally polarized p + p collisions at root s = 200 GeV from data taken by the PHENIX experiment in 2005 and 2006. The analysis deduces the transverse momentum of the dijet from the widths of the near-and far-side peaks in the azimuthal correlation of the dihadrons. When averaged over the transverse momentum of the triggered particle, the difference of the root mean square of the dijet transverse momentum between like-and unlike-helicity collisions is found to be -37 +/- 88(stat) +/- 14(sys)t MeV/c.
Comments

This article is published as Adare, Ad, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Yasuyuki Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, J. Alexander et al. "Double-helicity dependence of jet properties from dihadrons in longitudinally polarized p+ p collisions at s= 200 GeV." Physical Review D 81, no. 1 (2010): 012002. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.012002. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
Andrew Adare, Nathan C. Grau, John C. Hill, Todd Kempel, et al.. "Double-helicity dependence of jet properties from dihadrons in longitudinally polarized p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV" Physical Review D Vol. 81 Iss. 1 (2010) p. 012002
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/146/