201. Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for J/psi Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV
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Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N. N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., Alexander, J., Al-Ta'ani, H., Angerami, A., Aoki, K., Apadula, N., Aphecetche, L., Aramaki, Y., Asai, J., Atomssa, E. T., Averbeck, R., Awes, T. C., Azmoun, B., Babintsev, V., Bai, M., Baksay, G., Baksay, L., Baldisseri, A., Barish, K. N., Barnes, P. D., Bassalleck, B., Basye, A. T., Bathe, S., Batsouli, S., Baublis, V., Baumann, C., Bazilevsky, A., Belikov, S., Belmont, R., Bennett, R., Berdnikov, A., Berdnikov, Y., Bhom, J. H., Bickley, A. A., Blau, D. S., Boissevain, J. G., Bok, J. S., Borel, H., Borggren, N., Boyle, K., Brooks, M. L., Buesching, H., Bumazhnov, V., Bunce, G., Butsyk, S., Camacho, C. M., Campbell, S., Caringi, A., Chang, B. S., Chang, W. C., Charvet, J. -L., Chen, C. -H., Chernichenko, S., Chi, C. Y., Chiu, M., Choi, I. J., Choi, J. B., Choudhury, R. K., Christiansen, P., Chujo, T., Chung, P., Churyn, A., Chvala, O., Cianciolo, V., Citron, Z., Cole, B. A., del Valle, Z. Conesa, Connors, M., Constantin, P., Csanád, M., Csörgő, T., Dahms, T., Dairaku, S., Danchev, I., Das, K., Datta, A., David, G., Dayananda, M. K., Denisov, A., d'Enterria, D., Deshpande, A., Desmond, E. J., Dharmawardane, K. V., Dietzsch, O., Dion, A., Donadelli, M., Orazio, L. D, Drapier, O., Drees, A., Drees, K. A., Dubey, A. K., Durham, J. M., Durum, A., Dutta, D., Dzhordzhadze, V., Edwards, S., Efremenko, Y. V., Ellinghaus, F., Engelmore, T., Enokizono, A., En'yo, H., Esumi, S., Eyser, K. O., Fadem, B., Fields, D. E., Finger Jr, M., Finger, M., Fleuret, F., Fokin, S. L., Fraenkel, Z., Frantz, J. E., Franz, A., Frawley, A. D., Fujiwara, K., Fukao, Y., Fusayasu, T., Garishvili, I., Glenn, A., Gong, H., Gonin, M., Gosset, J., Goto, Y., de Cassagnac, R. Granier, Grau, N., Greene, S. V., Grim, G., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Gunji, T., Gustafsson, H. -Å., Henni, A. Hadj, Haggerty, J. S., Hahn, K. I., Hamagaki, H., Hamblen, J., Hanks, J., Han, R., Hartouni, E. P., Haruna, K., Haslum, E., Hayano, R., Heffner, M., Hemmick, T. K., Hester, T., He, X., Hill, J. C., Hohlmann, M., Holzmann, W., Homma, K., Hong, B., Horaguchi, T., Hornback, D., Huang, S., Ichihara, T., Ichimiya, R., Iinuma, H., Ikeda, Y., Imai, K., Imrek, J., Inaba, M., Isenhower, D., Ishihara, M., Isobe, T., Issah, M., Isupov, A., Ivanischev, D., Iwanaga, Y., Jacak, B. V., Jia, J., Jiang, X., Jin, J., Johnson, B. M., Jones, T., Joo, K. S., Jouan, D., Jumper, D. S., Kajihara, F., Kametani, S., Kamihara, N., Kamin, J., Kang, J. H., Kapustinsky, J., Karatsu, K., Kasai, M., Kawall, D., Kawashima, M., Kazantsev, A. V., Kempel, T., Khanzadeev, A., Kijima, K. M., Kikuchi, J., Kim, A., Kim, B. I., Kim, D. H., Kim, D. J., Kim, E. J., Kim, E., Kim, S. H., Kim, Y. -J., Kinney, E., Kiriluk, K., Kiss, Á., Kistenev, E., Klay, J., Klein-Boesing, C., Kochenda, L., Komkov, B., Konno, M., Koster, J., Kozlov, A., Král, A., Kravitz, A., Kunde, G. J., Kurita, K., Kurosawa, M., Kweon, M. J., Kwon, Y., Kyle, G. S., Lacey, R., Lai, Y. S., Lajoie, J. G., Layton, D., Lebedev, A., Lee, D. M., Lee, J., Lee, K. B., Lee, K. S., Lee, T., Leitch, M. J., Leite, M. A. L., Lenzi, B., Lichtenwalner, P., Liebing, P., Levy, L. A. Linden, Liška, T., Litvinenko, A., Liu, H., Liu, M. X., Li, X., Love, B., Lynch, D., Maguire, C. F., Makdisi, Y. I., Malakhov, A., Malik, M. D., Manko, V. I., Mannel, E., Mao, Y., Mašek, L., Masui, H., Matathias, F., McCumber, M., McGaughey, P. L., Means, N., Meredith, B., Miake, Y., Mibe, T., Mignerey, A. C., Mikeš, P., Miki, K., Milov, A., Mishra, M., Mitchell, J. T., Mohanty, A. K., Moon, H. J., Morino, Y., Morreale, A., Morrison, D. P., Moukhanova, T. V., Mukhopadhyay, D., Murakami, T., Murata, J., Nagamiya, S., Nagle, J. L., Naglis, M., Nagy, M. I., Nakagawa, I., Nakamiya, Y., Nakamura, K. R., Nakamura, T., Nakano, K., Nam, S., Newby, J., Nguyen, M., Nihashi, M., Niita, T., Nouicer, R., Nyanin, A. S., Oakley, C., O'Brien, E., Oda, S. X., Ogilvie, C. A., Okada, K., Oka, M., Onuki, Y., Oskarsson, A., Ouchida, M., Ozawa, K., Pak, R., Palounek, A. P. T., Pantuev, V., Papavassiliou, V., Park, I. H., Park, J., Park, S. K., Park, W. J., Pate, S. F., Pei, H., Peng, J. -C., Pereira, H., Peresedov, V., Peressounko, D. Yu., Petti, R., Pinkenburg, C., Pisani, R. P., Proissl, M., Purschke, M. L., Purwar, A. K., Qu, H., Rak, J., Rakotozafindrabe, A., Ravinovich, I., Read, K. F., Rembeczki, S., Reygers, K., Riabov, V., Riabov, Y., Richardson, E., Roach, D., Roche, G., Rolnick, S. D., Rosati, M., Rosen, C. A., Rosendahl, S. S. E., Rosnet, P., Rukoyatkin, P., Ružička, P., Rykov, V. L., Sahlmueller, B., Saito, N., Sakaguchi, T., Sakai, S., Sakashita, K., Samsonov, V., Sano, S., Sato, T., Sawada, S., Sedgwick, K., Seele, J., Seidl, R., Semenov, A. Yu., Semenov, V., Seto, R., Sharma, D., Shein, I., Shibata, T. -A., Shigaki, K., Shimomura, M., Shoji, K., Shukla, P., Sickles, A., Silva, C. L., Silvermyr, D., Silvestre, C., Sim, K. S., Singh, B. K., Singh, C. P., Singh, V., Slunečka, M., Soldatov, A., Soltz, R. A., Sondheim, W. E., Sorensen, S. P., Sourikova, I. V., Staley, F., Stankus, P. W., Stenlund, E., Stepanov, M., Ster, A., Stoll, S. P., Sugitate, T., Suire, C., Sukhanov, A., Sziklai, J., Takagui, E. M., Taketani, A., Tanabe, R., Tanaka, Y., Taneja, S., Tanida, K., Tannenbaum, M. J., Tarafdar, S., Taranenko, A., Tarján, P., Themann, H., Thomas, D., Thomas, T. L., Togawa, M., Toia, A., Tomášek, L., Tomita, Y., Torii, H., Towell, R. S., Tram, V-N., Tserruya, I., Tsuchimoto, Y., Vale, C., Valle, H., van Hecke, H. W., Vazquez-Zambrano, E., Veicht, A., Velkovska, J., Vértesi, R., Vinogradov, A. A., Virius, M., Vrba, V., Vznuzdaev, E., Wang, X. R., Watanabe, D., Watanabe, K., Watanabe, Y., Wei, F., Wessels, J., White, S. N., Winter, D., Woody, C. L., Wright, R. M., Wysocki, M., Xie, W., Yamaguchi, Y. L., Yamaura, K., Yang, R., Yanovich, A., Ying, J., Yokkaichi, S., Young, G. R., Younus, I., You, Z., Yushmanov, I. E., Zajc, W. A., Zaudtke, O., Zhang, C., Zhou, S., and Zolin, L.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
We report the first measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries in $J/\psi$ production from transversely polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV with data taken by the PHENIX experiment in 2006 and 2008. The measurement was performed over the rapidity ranges $1.2 < |y| < 2.2$ and $ |y| < 0.35$ for transverse momenta up to 6 GeV/$c$. $J/\psi$ production at RHIC is dominated by processes involving initial-state gluons, and transverse single-spin asymmetries of the $J/\psi$ can provide access to gluon dynamics within the nucleon. Such asymmetries may also shed light on the long-standing question in QCD of the $J/\psi$ production mechanism. Asymmetries were obtained as a function of $J/\psi$ transverse momentum and Feynman-$x$, with a value of $-0.086 \pm 0.026^{\rm stat} \pm 0.003^{\rm syst}$ in the forward region. This result suggests possible nonzero trigluon correlation functions in transversely polarized protons and, if well defined in this reaction, a nonzero gluon Sivers distribution function., Comment: 431 authors from 62 institutions, 13 pages, 5 figures, and 5 tables. Submitted to Physical Review D. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
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