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Observation of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in p↑+p at s=200 GeV
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http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.242501No data is associated with this publication.
Abstract
We report the observation of transverse polarization-dependent azimuthal correlations in charged pion pair production with the STAR experiment in p^{↑}+p collisions at RHIC. These correlations directly probe quark transversity distributions. We measure signals in excess of 5 standard deviations at high transverse momenta, at high pseudorapidities η>0.5, and for pair masses around the mass of the ρ meson. This is the first direct transversity measurement in p+p collisions.
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