Transverse momentum dependence of J/psi polarization at midrapidity in p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO |
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18/04/2012
18/04/2012
2010
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We report the measurement of the transverse momentum dependence of inclusive J/psi polarization in p + p collisions at root s = 200 GeV performed by the PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The J/psi polarization is studied in the helicity, Gottfried-Jackson, and Collins-Soper frames for p(T) < 5 GeV/c and vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.35. The polarization in the helicity and Gottfried-Jackson frames is consistent with zero for all transverse momenta, with a slight (1.8 sigma) trend towards longitudinal polarization for transverse momenta above 2 GeV/c. No conclusion is allowed due to the limited acceptance in the Collins-Soper frame and the uncertainties of the current data. The results are compared to observations for other collision systems and center of mass energies and to different quarkonia production models. Office of Nuclear Physics in the Office of Science of the Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Foundation (NSF) Renaissance Technologies LLC Abilene Christian University Research Council Research Foundation of SUNY Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Vanderbilt University (USA) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan JSPS - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) and Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) (Brazil) NSFC Natural Science Foundation of China (People's Republic of China) MSMT Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CNRS/IN2P3) Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (France) Ministry of Industry, Science and Tekhnologies BMBF - Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Germany (DAAD) Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Germany Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) OTKA Hungarian National Science Fund OTKA (Hungary) (DAE) Department of Atomic Energy, India ISF - Israel Science Foundation (Israel) National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea Ministry of Education and Science RAS Russia Academy of Sciences, FAAE Federal Agency of Atomic Energy (Russia) Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden) CRDF U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union US-Hungarian Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange (BSF) US-Israel Binational Science Foundation |
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D, v.82, n.1, 2010 1550-7998 http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/16071 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.012001 |
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eng |
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AMER PHYSICAL SOC |
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Physical Review D |
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restrictedAccess Copyright AMER PHYSICAL SOC |
| Palavras-Chave | #HADRONIC COLLISIONS #HEAVY-QUARKONIUM #PAIR PRODUCTION #CROSS-SECTIONS #N INTERACTIONS #J-PSI #HADROPRODUCTION #TEVATRON #ANNIHILATION #Astronomy & Astrophysics #Physics, Particles & Fields |
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