2–8 Sept 2016
Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)
Europe/Rome timezone

Single-spin asymmetry of leading neutrons in polarized pA collisions

4 Sept 2016, 10:10
25m
Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)

Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)

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Spin Physics Spin Physics (I)

Speaker

Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)

Description

Mild nuclear effects are predicted for the production cross section and single-spin asymmetry of leading neutrons, in reaction pA=>nX with polarized protons. This result does not contradict the anomalously large asymmetry observed by PHENIX in large rapidity-gap events.

Primary author

Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)

Co-authors

Irina Potashnikova (UTFSM) Ivan Schmidt (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile)

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