Single Transverse Spin Asymmetries in Drell Yan Production at RHIC

ORAL

Abstract

We present the physics and experimental feasibility of single transverse spin asymmetry measurements in Drell Yan di-lepton production in polarized proton-proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The measurement will be sensitive to Sivers quark distributions and test recent fundamental theory predictions that the Sivers effect will be observed to be process dependent.

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Authors

  • Les Bland

    Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Gerry Bunce

    Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Matthias Grosse Perdekamp

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois

  • Ming Liu

    Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Beau Meredith

    University of Illinois

  • Werner Vogelsang

    Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Feng Yuan

    Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Lab