Campus Units
Physics and Astronomy
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-7-2016
Journal or Book Title
Physical Review D
Volume
93
Issue
1
First Page
011501
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.011501
Abstract
PHENIX measurements are presented for the cross section and double-helicity asymmetry (A(LL)) in inclusive pi(0) production at midrapidity from p + p collisions at root s = 510 GeV from data taken in 2012 and 2013 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The next-to-leading-order perturbative-quantum-chromodynamics theory calculation is in excellent agreement with the presented cross section results. The calculation utilized parton-to-pion fragmentation functions from the recent DSS14 global analysis, which prefer a smaller gluon-to-pion fragmentation function. The pi(0)A(LL) results follow an increasingly positive asymmetry trend with p(T) and root s with respect to the predictions and are in excellent agreement with the latest global analysis results. This analysis incorporated earlier results on pi(0) and jet A(LL) and suggested a positive contribution of gluon polarization to the spin of the proton Delta G for the gluon momentum fraction range x > 0.05. The data presented here extend to a currently unexplored region, down to x similar to 0.01, and thus provide additional constraints on the value of Delta G.
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2016
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Adare, Andrew; Apadula, Nicole J.; Campbell, Sarah C.; Ding, Lei; Hill, John C.; Hotvedt, Nels J.; Lajoie, John G.; Lebedev, Alexandre; Ogilvie, Craig; Patel, Milap R.; Perry, Joshua; Rinn, Timothy T.; Rosati, Marzia; Shaver, Alex; Shimomura, M.; Timilsina, Arbin; Whitaker, Shawn; et al.; and PHENIX Collaboration, "Inclusive cross section and double-helicity asymmetry for pi(0) production at midrapidity in p plus p collisions at root s=510 GeV" (2016). Physics and Astronomy Publications. 215.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/physastro_pubs/215
Comments
This article is from Physical Review D 93 (2016): 011501, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.011501. Posted with permission.