Nonperturbative-transverse-momentum effects and evolution in dihadron and direct photon-hadron angular correlations in p+p collisions at s =510 GeV

A Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, R. Akimoto, J J Alexander, M. Alfred, V. Andrieux, K. Aoki, N Apadula, Y Aramaki, H. Asano, E. T. Atomssa, T. C. Awes, Carmen Ayuso, B. Azmoun, V. Babintsev, M Bai, X. Bai, N. S. BandaraB Bannier, K N Barish, S Bathe, V. Baublis, C. Baumann, S. Baumgart, A Bazilevsky, M. Beaumier, S. Beckman, R Belmont, A Berdnikov, Y. Berdnikov, D Black, D. S. Blau, M. Boer, J S Bok, K Boyle, M L Brooks, J. Bryslawskyj, H Buesching, V. Bumazhnov, Christopher C. Butler, S. Butsyk, S. Campbell, V. Canoa Roman, R. Cervantes, P. Christiansen, A. Oskarsson, D. Silvermyr, E. Stenlund, PHENIX Collaboration

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Abstract

Dihadron and isolated direct photon-hadron angular correlations are measured in p+p collisions at s=510 GeV. Correlations of charged hadrons of 0.7<pT<10 GeV/c with π0 mesons of 4<pT<15 GeV/c or isolated direct photons of 7<pT<15 GeV/c are used to study nonperturbative effects generated by initial-state partonic transverse momentum and final-state transverse momentum from fragmentation. The nonperturbative behavior is characterized by measuring the out-of-plane transverse momentum component pout perpendicular to the axis of the trigger particle, which is the high-pT direct photon or π0. Nonperturbative evolution effects are extracted from Gaussian fits to the away-side inclusive-charged-hadron yields for different trigger-particle transverse momenta (pTtrig). The Gaussian widths and root mean square of pout are reported as a function of the interaction hard scale pTtrig to investigate possible transverse-momentum-dependent evolution differences between the π0-h± and direct photon-h± correlations and factorization breaking effects. The widths are found to decrease with pTtrig, which indicates that the Collins-Soper-Sterman soft factor is not driving the evolution with the hard scale in nearly back-to-back dihadron and direct photon-hadron production in p+p collisions. This behavior is in contrast to Drell-Yan and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Article number072002
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume95
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Apr 1

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  • Subatomic Physics

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