Article
Improved measurement of double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity pi(0) production for polarized p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV
Physical Review D
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
5-1-2006
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.091102
Abstract
We present an improved measurement of the double helicity asymmetry for pi(0) production in polarized proton-proton scattering at root s=200 GeV employing the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The improvements to our previous measurement come from two main factors: Inclusion of a new data set from the 2004 RHIC run with higher beam polarizations than the earlier run and a recalibration of the beam polarization measurements for the earlier run, which resulted in reduced uncertainties and increased beam polarizations. The results are compared to a Next to Leading Order (NLO) perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) calculation with a range of polarized gluon distributions.
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2006
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
S. S. Adler, Sergey Belikov, Paul Constantin, Nathan C. Grau, et al.. "Improved measurement of double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity pi(0) production for polarized p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV" Physical Review D Vol. 73 Iss. 9 (2006) p. 091102 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/164/
This article is published as Adler, Stephen Scott, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, A. Al-Jamel, J. Alexander et al. "Improved measurement of double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity π 0 production for polarized p+ p collisions at s= 200 GeV." Physical Review D 73, no. 9 (2006): 091102. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.091102. Posted with permission.