Single-Spin Transverse Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production at PHENIX

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May 2004

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2004, May 1-4, 2004, Denver, Colorado April 2004, MEETING ID: APR04, abstract #D7.008

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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) began operation as the first polarized proton collider in 2001. From data collected in the 2001-2002 run, the PHENIX experiment has measured the single-spin transverse asymmetry (A_N) for neutral pion production at x_F ˜0 over a transverse momentum range of 1.0 to 5.0 GeV/c from polarized proton-proton interactions at a center of mass energy (√s) of 200 GeV. Interest in these measurements arises from the observation of large ( ˜10-30%) single-spin transverse asymmetries in pp_arrowarrowπ X at forward angles by the E704 collaboration at Fermilab (√s = 19.4GeV) and the STAR collaboration at RHIC (√(s) = 200GeV), as well as single-spin, azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering by the HERMES collaboration at DESY. Such large asymmetries were initially surprising because, at leading-order, pQCD predicts only small effects. Recently it has been argued that these large asymmetries may be produced by initial-state effects (e.g. the Sivers effect), final-state effects (e.g. transversity with the Collins effect), higher-twist contributions, or a combination of the three. In this talk, we will report on the results ofthis measurement.

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