Authors

L. Adamczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
James K. Adkins, University of KentuckyFollow
G. Agakishiev, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
M. M. Aggarwal, Panjab University, India
Z. Ahammed, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, India
I. Alekseev, Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Russia
A. Aparin, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
D. Arkhipkin, Brookhaven National Laboratory
E. C. Aschenauer, Brookhaven National Laboratory
A. Attri, Panjab University, India
G. S. Averichev, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
X. Bai, Central China Normal University, China
V. Bairathi, National Institute of Science Education and Research, India
A. Banerjee, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, India
R. Bellwied, University of Houston
A. Bhasin, University of Jammu, India
A. K. Bhati, Panjab University, India
P. Bhattarai, University of Texas at Austin
J. Bielcik, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
J. Bielcikova, Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, Czech Republic
L. C. Bland, Brookhaven National Laboratory
I. G. Bordyuzhin, Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Russia
J. Bouchet, Kent State University
J. D. Brandenburg, Rice University
A. V. Brandin, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russia
I. Bunzarov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
J. Butterworth, Rice University
H. Caines, Yale University
M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, University of California - Davis
J. M. Campbell, Ohio State University
Renee H. Fatemi, University of KentuckyFollow
Suvarna Ramachandran, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

We present the measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetry of weak boson production in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at √s = 500  GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The measured observable is sensitive to the Sivers function, one of the transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions, which is predicted to have the opposite sign in proton-proton collisions from that observed in deep inelastic lepton-proton scattering. These data provide the first experimental investigation of the nonuniversality of the Sivers function, fundamental to our understanding of QCD.

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Publication Date

4-1-2016

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Physical Review Letters, v. 116, issue 13, 132301, p. 1-7.

© 2016 American Physical Society

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Due to the large number of authors, only the first 30 and the authors affiliated with the University of Kentucky are listed in the author section above. For the complete list of authors, please download this article.

The authors of this article are collectively known as STAR Collaboration.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.132301

Funding Information

We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, the KISTI Center in Korea, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. NSF, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, NNSFC, CAS, MoST and MoE of China, the National Research Foundation of Korea, GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, FIAS of Germany, DAE, DST, and UGC of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation (NRF-2012004024), the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, and RosAtom of Russia.

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