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Double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity pi(0) production for polarized p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV

Adler, SS ; Afanasiev, S ; Aidala, C ; Ajitanand, NN ; Akiba, Y ; Al-Jamel, A ; Alexander, J ; Aoki, K ; Aphecetche, L and Armendariz, R , et al. (2004) In Physical Review Letters 93(20: 202002).
Abstract
We present a measurement of the double longitudinal spin asymmetry in inclusive pi(0) production in polarized proton-proton collisions at roots=200 GeV. The data were taken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider with average beam polarizations of 0.27. The measurements are the first in 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 midrapidity, where next-to-leading-order perturbative quantum chromodynamic (NLO pQCD) calculations well describe the unpolarized cross section. The observed asymmetry is small and is compared to a NLO pQCD calculation with a range of polarized gluon distributions.
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.202002
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  issn         = {{1079-7114}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{20: 202002}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity pi(0) production for polarized p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.202002}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.202002}},
  volume       = {{93}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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