Nuclear Dependence of the Transverse-Single-Spin Asymmetry for Forward Neutron Production in Polarized p+A Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
PHENIX Collaboration. (2018). Nuclear Dependence of the Transverse-Single-Spin Asymmetry for Forward Neutron Production in Polarized p+A Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. Physical Review Letters, 120(2), Article 022001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.022001
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During 2015, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provided collisions of transversely polarized protons with Au and Al nuclei for the first time, enabling the exploration of transverse-single-spin asymmetries with heavy nuclei. Large single-spin asymmetries in very forward neutron production have been previously observed in transversely polarized
p
+
p
collisions at RHIC, and the existing theoretical framework that was successful in describing the single-spin asymmetry in
p
+
p
collisions predicts only a moderate atomic-mass-number (
A
) dependence. In contrast, the asymmetries observed at RHIC in
p
+
A
collisions showed a surprisingly strong
A
dependence in inclusive forward neutron production. The observed asymmetry in
p
+
Al
collisions is much smaller, while the asymmetry in
p
+
Au
collisions is a factor of 3 larger in absolute value and of opposite sign. The interplay of different neutron production mechanisms is discussed as a possible explanation of the observed
A
dependence.
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