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Charged-pion cross sections and double-helicity asymmetries in polarized p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV

Adare, A. ; Aidala, C. ; Ajitanand, N. N. ; Akiba, Y. ; Akimoto, R. ; Al-Ta'ani, H. ; Alexander, J. ; Andrews, K. R. ; Angerami, A. and Aoki, K. , et al. (2015) In Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology) 91(3).
Abstract
We present midrapidity charged-pion invariant cross sections, the ratio of the pi(-) to pi(+) cross sections and the charge-separated double-spin asymmetries in polarized p + p collisions at root s = p + 200 GeV. While the cross section measurements are consistent within the errors of next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative quantum chromodynamics predictions (pQCD), the same calculations overestimate the ratio of the charged-pion cross sections. This discrepancy arises from the cancellation of the substantial systematic errors associated with the NLO-pQCD predictions in the ratio and highlights the constraints these data will place on flavor-dependent pion fragmentation functions. The charge-separated pion asymmetries presented here... (More)
We present midrapidity charged-pion invariant cross sections, the ratio of the pi(-) to pi(+) cross sections and the charge-separated double-spin asymmetries in polarized p + p collisions at root s = p + 200 GeV. While the cross section measurements are consistent within the errors of next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative quantum chromodynamics predictions (pQCD), the same calculations overestimate the ratio of the charged-pion cross sections. This discrepancy arises from the cancellation of the substantial systematic errors associated with the NLO-pQCD predictions in the ratio and highlights the constraints these data will place on flavor-dependent pion fragmentation functions. The charge-separated pion asymmetries presented here sample an x range of similar to 0.03-0.16 and provide unique information on the sign of the gluon-helicity distribution. (Less)
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  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)}},
  title        = {{Charged-pion cross sections and double-helicity asymmetries in polarized p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.032001}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevD.91.032001}},
  volume       = {{91}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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