Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2004-04-21
Phys.Rev.Lett.93:202002,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
326 authors, 6 pages text, RevTeX, 3 figures, 1 table. To be submitted to PRL. Plain text data tables for the points plotted i
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.202002
We present a measurement of the double longitudinal spin asymmetry in inclusive pi^0 production in polarized proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV. The data were taken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider with average beam polarizations of 26%. The measurements are the first of a program to study the longitudinal spin structure of the proton, using strongly interacting probes, at collider energies. The asymmetry is presented for transverse momenta 1-5 GeV/c at mid-rapidity, where next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamic (NLO pQCD) calculations describe the unpolarized cross section well. The observed asymmetry is small and is compared with a NLO pQCD calculation with a range of polarized gluon distributions.
Adler Susanne
the PHENIX Collaboration
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