1. Double spin asymmetries ANN and ASS at s=200 GeV in polarized proton–proton elastic scattering at RHIC
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Adam Rusek, Steven Tepikian, R. E. Chrien, Alexander Khodinov, I-Hung Chiang, R. L. Gill, Kaushik De, Janusz Chwastowski, David Lynn, N. Guler, T. Ljubicic, W. Guryn, S. Bültmann, M. Sakitt, Alexey A. Bogdanov, J. M. Landgraf, B. Pawlik, V. P. Kanavets, Jing Li, B. V. Morozov, L. I. Koroleva, C. Pearson, L. Whitehead, A. Sandacz, A. Drees, K. Yip, I. G. Alekseev, M. Haguenauer, P. Pile, Nurcan Ozturk, Mikhail N. Strikhanov, S. B. Nurushev, Michael Rijssenbeek, M.F. Runtzo, D. N. Svirida, and S. Yeung
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Elastic scattering ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Proton ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Momentum transfer ,Helicity ,Asymmetry ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment ,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ,media_common ,Spin-½ - Abstract
We present the first measurements of the double spin asymmetries A N N and A S S at s = 200 GeV , obtained by the PP2PP experiment using polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The data were collected in the four momentum transfer t range 0.01 ⩽ | t | ⩽ 0.03 ( GeV / c ) 2 . The measured asymmetries, which are consistent with zero, allow us to estimate upper limits on the double helicity-flip amplitudes ϕ 2 and ϕ 4 at small | t | as well as on the difference Δ σ T between the total cross sections for transversely polarized protons with antiparallel or parallel spin orientations.
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- 2007
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