Cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetry of muons from open heavy-flavor decays in polarized p+p collisions at s =200 GeV

C. Aidala, N N Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, R. Akimoto, J J Alexander, M. Alfred, Peter Christiansen, Anders Oskarsson, David Silvermyr, Evert Stenlund, PHENIX Collaboration

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Abstract

The cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetries of μ- and μ+ from open heavy-flavor decays in polarized p+p collisions at s=200 GeV were measured by the PHENIX experiment during 2012 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Because heavy-flavor production is dominated by gluon-gluon interactions at s=200 GeV, these measurements offer a unique opportunity to obtain information on the trigluon correlation functions. The measurements are performed at forward and backward rapidity (1.4
Original languageEnglish
Article number12001
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume95
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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Export Date: 24 July 2017

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  • Subatomic Physics

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