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arxiv: 1504.00415 · v1 · submitted 2015-04-01 · ✦ hep-ex · nucl-ex

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Observation of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in p^uparrow+p at sqrt{s}=200 GeV

STAR Collaboration: L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , A. Aparin
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We report the observation of transverse polarization-dependent azimuthal correlations in charged pion pair production with the STAR experiment in $p^\uparrow+p$ collisions at RHIC. These correlations directly probe quark transversity distributions. We measure signals in excess of five standard deviations at high transverse momenta, at high pseudorapidities eta>0.5, and for pair masses around the mass of the rho-meson. This is the first direct transversity measurement in p+p collisions. Comparing the results to data from lepton-nucleon scattering will test the universality of these spin-dependent quantities.

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