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W→ µ parity violating asymmetries from the 2013 running period inthe PHENIX experiment
R. Seidl∗1 for the PHENIX collaboration
During the 2013 data taking period 277 pb−1 of lon-gitudinally polarized proton collision data at a cen-ter of mass energy of 510 GeV were accumulated withan average beam polarization of 53% per beam at thePHENIX experiment at RHIC. This data correspondsto the largest data sample available for the polarizedW data analysis. In order to access the sea quark po-larization in the nucleon real W boson production isan elegant way. The parity violation of the weak in-teraction directly selects the helicity of the quarks andanti-quarks and the charge of the produced W bosonselects the quark and anti-quark flavors. For examplethe W− gets produced by a left-handed d quark anda right-handed anti-u quark. While the u and d quarkhelicities are already reasonably well known the seaquark helicities are only very poorly determined andthe question whether the polarized light sea is symmet-ric or not has been predicted rather differently in var-ious nucleon models. The analysis of W decay muonsin the forward and backward muon arm detectors ofPHENIX is not as straightforward as at central rapidi-ties as there is no clean W decay signature such as aJacobian peak at half the Wmass. Also a large numberof background sources exist such as heavy flavor decaymuons and hadrons decaying within the tracking vol-ume mimicking a high momentum muon as previouslyreported. With the help of kinematically different vari-
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Fig. 1. Total pp → W±X ×BR(W → l) cross sections for
forward muon and previously published W → e results
by PHENIX1) and STAR2) as well as predictions by
Pythia3), CHE4) and RHICBOS5).
ables for signal and backgrounds candidate events werepre-selected by a likelihood ratio where only high sig-nal likelihood events were kept. Then the relative sig-nal and background contributions were fit by a maxi-mum unbinned likelihood fit. From those preliminarypp → W±X cross sections were extracted which turnedout to be consistent with NLO predictions, see Fig. 1.After correcting the raw single spin asymmetries for
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beam polarization and dilution by background the pre-liminary results6) for the single spin asymmetries wereobtained as seen in Fig. 2. The results are in goodagreement with the parameterizations and will even-tually be used in future iterations of the global he-licity fits to all the existing deep inelastic scatteringand proton-proton collision data. The 2013 PHENIXW results are currently being prepared for publicationand it is expected to reduce the systematic uncertain-ties which are dominated by the uncertainties on thesignal to background ratio still.
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Fig. 2. Single spin asymmetries of W+Z decay leptons as a
function of lepton rapidity. The preliminary PHENIX
electron and muon results from the 2013 data taking
period (red) and the published STAR electron results
from 2012 (green)7) are shown as well as various helicity
parameterizations.
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Neutral pion double helicity asymmetry†
K. Boyle∗1
A major goal of the RHIC Spin program is to de-termine the gluon spin distribution in the proton. Thequark spin contribution to the proton spin (∆Σ) is onlyabout 25%1), and so the remaining spin must be car-ried by the gluon spin (∆G), or by the gluon and quarkorbital angular momentum (Lq and Lg, respectively):
Sp =1
2=
1
2∆Σ+∆G+ Lq + Lg (1)
written in units of h̄.At RHIC, ∆G can be probed directly through mea-
surements of the double helicity asymmetry in polar-ized p+ p collisions, in this case for neutral pions:
ALL =1
PBPY
N++ −RN+−
N++ +RN+−
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where PB and PY are the polarizations of the two pro-ton rings at RHIC, N is the yield of neutral pions,π0, ++ and +− indicate same and opposite helicitycombinations of the two beam helicities, and R is therelative luminosity, defined as R = L++/L+−, whichis required to normalize differences in the luminosityL between RHIC proton bunches.In 2009, RHIC PHENIX recorded 14 pb−1 with an
average polarization of 56%. The π0 ALL was mea-sured, and found to be consistent with previous results.The combined results from 20052), 20063) and 20094)
are plotted in Fig. 1. The systematic uncertainty fromrelative luminosity in 2009 was larger than in previousyears, and for the lowest π0 transverse momentum, pT ,was larger than the statistical uncertainties.
The combined data set are shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2compared to several theoretical expectations based onfits to the world polarized scattering data. In the caseof1), the RHIC 2005 and 2006 π0 data are also in-cluded. In fits that do not use RHIC data, such asGRSV5), LSS6) and BB7), there is large uncertainty in∆G and therefore in the expected π0 ALL. Fits includ-ing some RHIC data, such as DSSV1) and NNPDF8)
find a smaller range of possible ∆G. These data there-fore offer significant constraint on ∆G. Recently, theRHIC 2009 data have been included in an updatedversion of DSSV9), and indicate that the gluon spincontribution to the proton spin is about the same sizeas that of the quarks.
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† Condensed from the article in Phys. Rev. D 90, no. 1,012007 (2014)
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Fig. 1. Results for π0ALL vs. pT from the combined 2005,
2006 and 2009 PHENIX data sets. The data are com-
pared with several theoretical expectations.
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Fig. 2. Results for π0ALL vs. pT from the combined 2005,
2006 and 2009 PHENIX data sets. The data are com-
pared with several theoretical expectations.
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