Double Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Charged Pion Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV

Details Double Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Charged Pion Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV Double Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Charged Pion Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at 200 GeV

2006-12-01

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0612005v1

AIPConf.Proc.915:355-358,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the Proceedings of the 17th International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN 2006), Kyoto, Japan

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2750795

A primary goal of the STAR Spin program at RHIC is the measurement of the polarized gluon distribution function $\Delta G$, which can be obtained from a global analysis incorporating measurements of the double spin asymmetry A_{LL} in various final state channels of polarized p+p collisions. Final states with large production cross sections such as inclusive jet and hadron production are analyzed as the program moves towards the measurement of A_{LL} in the theoretically clean channel of prompt photon production. The channels p+p -> pi^{+/-} + X are unique in that the ordering of the measurements of A_{LL} in these two channels is sensitive to the sign of Delta G. Moreover, STAR has already established the procedure for the identification of charged pions and the calculation of their production cross-sections over a broad kinematic range. This contribution will present first measurements of double longitudinal spin asymmetries for inclusive charged pion production extracted from 3 pb^{-1} of data at sqrt{s}=200 GeV and 50% beam polarizations. The asymmetries are calculated over the transverse momentum region 2

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