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RHIC
AND
THE HELICITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF
THE QUARKS AND GLUONS
E.C. Aschenauer
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RHIC@BNL Today
Jet/C-Polarimeters
12:00 o’clock
RHIC
PHENIX
8:00 o’clock
LINAC
NSRL
EBIS
Booster
AGS
ANDY
2:00 o’clock
RF
Beams: √s=<500 GeV pp; 50-60% polarization
4:00 o’clock
Lumi: ~10 pb-1/week
STAR
6:00 o’clock
STAR
ERL Test Facility
Tandems
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RHIC polarized protons – luminosity and
polarization
• <P> increased from 37% to
46% at 250 GeV in Run-11
still significant effort needed to
reach goal of 70%
also for 100GeV Beams
• Building blocks for pp design
luminosity at 250 GeV
demonstrated in Run-9 and
Run-11
need to be put together
plans to go beyond
• Expect no significant
increase in luminosity at
100 GeV before electron
lenses
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Predictive power of pQCD
P1
q(x1)
x1P1
Hard Scattering Process
sˆ
P2
x2P2
X
g(x2)
“Hard” (high-energy) probes have predictable rates given:
Partonic hard scattering rates (calculable in pQCD)
Parton distribution functions (need experimental input)
Fragmentation functions (need experimental input)
DIS
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pQCD
Universal
nonperturbative
functions
e+e-
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Underlying processes in pp
Mid-rapidity pp  p0/jetX dominated by gggg and gqgq
Forward-rapidity pp  p0/jet X dominated by gqgq
s ++ - s +- Dfa Dfb
ALL = ++
µ
aˆ LL
+s +s
fa fb
=3.3, s=200 GeV
qq  qq
gq  gq
gg  gg
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kinematics is unknown
Scale: pT
parton kinematics needs to be
unfolded in theo. calculation
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The Gluon Polarization
RHIC: many sub-processes with a
dominant gluon contribution
high-pT jet, pion, heavy quark, …
T
in NLO
h
e
o
r
e
t
i
c
a
l
unpolarised cross sections nicely reproduced in NLO pQCD
P
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Does QCD work: Cross Sections
s=62 GeV (PRD79, 012003)
s=200 GeV (PRD76, 051106)
s=500 GeV (Preliminary)
PRL 97, 152302
Data compared to NLO pQCD calculations:
 s=62 GeV calculations may need inclusion of NLL (effects of threshold logarithms)
 s=200 and 500 GeV: NLO agrees with data within ~30%
 Input to qcd fits of gluon fragmentation functions  DSS
 √s=200 GeV Jet Cross Sections agree with data in ~20%
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Current
knowledge
on DIS
Dg and polarized pp
Δg from
inclusive
DIS
 Scaling violations of g1
(Q2-dependence) give indirect access
to the gluon distribution via DGLAP
EIC
 RHIC polarized pp collisions at midrapidity
directly involve gluons
evolution.
 Rule out large DG for 0.05 < x < 0.2
DIS
RHIC
constrained x-range still very limited
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Much more data
Direct photon
Phys. Rev. D 79, 012003 : √s = 62.4 GeV
 Increased √s allows to go to lower x
 low pt  low x ?Scale uncertainty?
 Different final states select between
gg and qg scattering
 sign of Dg
 Future measurements will include
di-hadron at forward rapidity
 constrain x and to go to lower x
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η ALL : Phys. Rev. D 83, 032001
2-2.5 GeV/c
4-5 GeV/c
9-12 GeV/c
2-2.5 GeV/c
4-5 GeV/c
9-12 GeV/c
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Reconstructing Jets at STAR
MC Jets
GEANT
PYTHIA
Particle
Detector
Data Jets
e,n,g,
p,p,etc
q
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g
The large acceptance of the
STAR detector makes it well
suited for jet measurements:
TPC provides excellent
charged-particle tracking and
pT information over broad range
in η
Extensive EM calorimetry over
full 2π in azimuth and for -1 <
η < 2
Sophisticated multi-level
trigger on EMC information at
tower and patch scale
Use midpoint cone algorithm
many more have been used
Dominated by qg  sign of DG
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Correlation Measurements: ΔG
STAR
 Inclusive ALL measurements at
fixed pT average over a broad
range of xgluon
 Reconstructing correlated probes
(eg. di-jet, γ-jet) provides
information on initial state
partonic kinematics at LO
x1 =
x2 =
1
s
1
s
(p
(p
T3
M=
eh + pT 4 eh
3
T3
4
e - h + pT 4 e - h
3
)
4
 This allows for constraints on
the shape of Δg(x)
)
x1x2 s
x1
h 3 + h 4 = ln
x2
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STAR
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Inclusive Results: p0,p+,p- ALL
STAR
 In Run 6, STAR measured p0 ALL in three different pseudorapidity ranges
 Mid-rapidity results excludes maximal Δg model, consistent with EEMC result
 qg scattering dominates at high η with large x quarks and small x gluons
•
In Run 5, STAR measured ALL
for inclusive charged pions
• ALL(π+) - ALL(π-) is sensitive
to the sign of ΔG
• Trigger using neutral jet patch
 Introduces significant
trigger bias (charged pions
often subleading particles
in jets)
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DG: Path Forward
Limitations in current data:
 Limited x-range covered
 Weak sensitivity to the shape of DG(x)
Improve precision of current measurements
Get more data
Extend xg-range
Move to forward rapidities
Constrain kinematics: map DG vs xg
More exclusive channels: pp  g + jet and pp  jet + jet
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Forward Calorimetry: PHENIX MPC
Muon Piston Calorimeter (MPC): PbWO4
3.1 < || < 3.9
2p azimuth
Gives access to lower: x10-3
Fully available from 2008
PHENIX pp p0 X : projections ||<0.35
MPC p0 500 GeV
300 pb-1 P=0.55
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STAR Expected
Future Inclusive Jet Sensitivity
 Plan to measure inclusive jet ALL in 500 GeV collisions
during 2012 and 2013 RHIC runs
• Sensitive to smaller xg at higher beam energy
• Smaller asymmetries expected, so control of
systematics important
 Future running at 200 GeV expected to significantly reduce
uncertainties relative to 2009 data as well
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STAR
Projected Di-jet Sensitivity @ 500 GeV
Projected Stat. Uncertainty: 50% Pol 390 pb-1
 Higher energies give
access to lower xg
 Expect ALL to be
smaller than 200 GeV
Mjj [GeV]
Mjj [GeV]
 Projections shown are
purely statistical
 Forward jets in EEMC
region sensitive to even
lower xg
Mjj [GeV]
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Marco
Heavy Flavor
Very Very difficult:
Need to shrink uncertainties at
least by x50 (x2500 in lumi!!!)
Correlations may give larger
asymmetries, but will have even
smaller stat. power.
Both experiments have / or will
have -vertex detectors
Heavy Flavor
•
•
•
Production dominated by
gluon gluon fusion
Measured via e+e-, +-, e,
eX, X
Need more P4L
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Relative Luminosity
Biggest systematic uncertainty
Need to control R to < 10-4 for low x measurements
Beam-Beam Counters (BBC)
++
L++ L-- N BBC
R = +- = -+ = +L
L
N BBC
 PHENIX:
Δη = ±(3.1 to 3.9), Δφ = 2π
 STAR:
Δη = ±(3.3 to 5.5)
Cross checked with ZDC:
<2.5 mrad (>6)
Different physics signal, different kinematic region
ALL of BBC relative to ZDC is ~0
Results-200 GeV i.e. for PHENIX, STAR very similar
2005: R ~ (25)10-4  ALL ~ (13)10-4
2006: R ~ (7.5)10-4  ALL ~ (8.2)10-4
2009: R ~ (14)10-4  ALL ~ (8.2)10-4
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Dq: W Production Basics
Since W is maximally parity violating
 W’s couple only to one parton helicity
large Δu and Δd result in large asymmetries.
u
No Fragmentation !
d
Similar expression for W- to get Δ
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expectations for ALe in pp collisions
de Florian, Vogelsang
t large
strong sensitivity to
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u large
t large
u large
limited sensitivity to
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Central region: W  e from Run9
 Triggered by energy in EMCal
 Momentum from energy in EMCal
 Charge from tracking in B field
STAR: |e|<1
PHENIX: |e|<0.35
e+
eL=12 pb-1
L=8.6 pb-1
e+
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Measured Cross Sections
 Reconstruction efficiency
determined from MC
 Acceptance from NLO
calculation with PDF
uncertainty folded in
 Good agreement between
experiment and theory over
wide kinematic range
arXiv:1112.2980
s Wtot( Z) × BR ( W ( Z ) ® en ( ee )) =
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NWobs( Z) - NWbkgd
( Z)
L × e Wtot( Z) × AW ( Z)
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W Cross Section Ratio: RW
STAR
 Ratio of W+ to W- cross sections
sensitive to unpolarized sea quark
flavor asymmetry
 Complementary to fixed-target DY
and LHC collider measurements
arXiv:1112.2980
PRL 80, 3715 (1998)
obs
bkgd
tot
s W+ NW+
- NW+
e W+
u(x1 )d (x2 ) + d (x1 )u(x2 )
RW =
= obs
× tot =
bkgd
s W- NW- - NW- e W- u(x1 )d(x2 ) + d(x1 )u(x2 )
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ALW: First proof of principle Run-09
P=0.39
L=8.6/12 pb-1 in PHENIX/STAR
PHENIX: PRL106, 062001 (2011)
STAR:
PRL106, 062002 (2011)
STAR
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Future STAR W Measurements
 Forward GEM Tracker
upgrade
 6 light-weight triple-GEM
η=1
disks using industrially
produced GEM foils
 Partial Installation for 2012
η=2
FGT
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PHENIX: Forward -Arm upgrade
MuID Trigger existing:
Selecting momentum
> 2 GeV
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MuTRG (fully installed):
Fast selection of high
momentum tracks
RPC 1 & 3 (installed):
Provide timing and rough
position information
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PHENIX Forward Arm: W  
 trigger eff.
First data collected in 2011:
L~15 pb-1 P~0.52
Data being analyzed
Raw yields with different triggers and cuts
 trigger rejection
Expected W yield
More challenging than We at ~0
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W  l : Projections
PHENIX: W
PHENIX: We
STAR: We
S/B = 5
Lumi: 300 pb-1 &
60% polarisation
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Dq from Hyperon Spin Transfer
STAR
PRD 80 111102 (2009)
Future:
 Can improve statistics at ||<1 significantly
 Go to more forward rapidities
W.Zhou, PRD81,057501,2010
2005 Data at √s=200 GeV
Caveat:
many theoretical models, but
L is product of hyperon decays
--> Impact on Dq ????
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√s=500 GeV at 2.5<<3.5
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ALW: Future Possibilities
 Can we increase p-beam energy?
 325 GeV: factor 2 in sW
 access to lower x for Dg(x)
ALW: pp @ 500 GeV
ALW: He3-p @ 432 GeV
 Increased beam-energy and polarized He-3 beam  full flavor separation
phase 2 of pp2pp@STAR can separate scattering on n or p
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Critical √s of W cross section
s w (650GeV)
~2
s w (500GeV)
Main issues:
 Quench performance of magnets (DX, arc dipoles and quads, IR quads)
 Crossing angles at IPs and luminosity
estimated # of training quenches
 Polarization
 Current feed-throughs
 Power supplies and transformers
 polarised He-Beams
 Dump kicker (strength, pre-fires)
had a aat
workshop
to discuss possibilities
 Reliability generallyreduced
higher energies
https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=405
Report: W. MacKay
BNL C-A/AP/422
 no show stoppers, but need additional snakes in RHIC
Conclusion:
many ideas to increase luminosity of RHIC
techniquely
challenging,
CEC magnets
 10% increase to275
GeV feasible
with i.e.
current
about 20 DX, 10 other training quenches, more cooling at some current leads
 Requires some hardware upgrades (power supplies)
 Effect on polarization still needs study
 Energies >275 GeV require too many training quenches
hundreds of arc dipole training quenches alone for 325 GeV
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What can be done in polarized pp
constraining Jg
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From pp to gp
 Get quasi-real photon from one proton
 Ensure dominance of g from one identified proton
by selecting very small t1, while t2 of “typical hadronic size”
small t1  large impact parameter b (UPC)
 Final state lepton pair  timelike compton scattering
 timelike Compton scattering: detailed access to GPDs
including Eq;g if have transv. target pol.
 Challenging to suppress all backgrounds
 Final state lepton pair not from g* but from J/ψ
 Done already in AuAu
 Estimates for J/ψ (hep-ph/0310223)
 transverse target spin asymmetry  calculable with GPDs
AUT (t ,t) ~
t0 - t Im(E * H)
mp
|H|
M J2 /Y
t=
s
 information on helicity-flip distribution E for gluons
golden measurement for eRHIC
Work in collaboration with Jakub Wagner, Dieter Mueller, Markus Diehl
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phot on-phot on
ples are nuclear
air and meson
. T he exchange
i, yielding large
al st at es t o low
riment al signahe first observauct ion, AuAu →
ccompanied by
Au ρ0 . Ult ralaborat ory for
o fixed-t arget ρ0
meson exchange, as indicat ed by t he rise of t he ρ product ion cross sect ion wit h increasing energy in lept onnucleon scat t ering [6]. In addit ion t o coherent ρ0 product ion, t he exchange of virt ual phot ons may excit e t he nuclei. T hese processes are assumed t o fact orize for heavyion collisions, which is just ified by t he similar case of
two-phot on int eract ions in relat ivist ic ion collisions accompanied by nuclear breakup, where it was shown t hat
t he non-fact orisable diagrams are small [7]. T he process
AuAu → Au Au ρ0 is shown in Fig. 1b. In lowest order,
mut ual nuclear excit at ion of heavy ions occurs by t he exchange of two phot ons [8, 9]. Because of t he Coulomb
What is feasible
 Thomas Ullrich and Tobias Toll have written an MC for exclusive
VM / DVCS production in ep & eA
 Modified to UPC in AA
a)
Au
→ AuAuρ (c.f.
s¨acker-Williams
e vect or meson
by one nucleus
scat t ers elast inuclei are not
olely of t he two
uct s [5]. In t he
#*
0
!
P
Au
b)
Au
Au
#*
²
!
²
P
Au
Au
²
²
Au*
#*
#*
Au*
a: elastic scattering
b: nucleus breaks up by emitting neutrons
 ZDC
FIG. 1: Diagram for (a) exclusive ρ0 product ion in ult raperipheral heavy ion collisions, and (b) ρ0 product ion wit h
nuclear excit at ion. T he dashed lines indicat e fact orizat ion.
 Also modified for UPC in pp
AuAu  Au+Au+r
 First simulations underway
cross sections agrees with
hep-ph/0310223 s ~ 6.2 nb
 STAR has good acceptance for J/psi
 Roman-Pots to tag exclusivity
SATRE still needs to be
tracked through the
STAR-MC to get
resolution effects included
 Good agreement
Need to do full rate estimate
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UPC in polarized pp collisions
STAR
Phase-I (installed): for low t-coverage
Phase-II (proposed): for high t-coverage
 No special b* running needed any more
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NYC,BNL and RHIC are beautiful
Summary
and the GIANTS
won the Superbowl
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BACKUP
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How do the partons form the spin of protons
Is the proton looking like this?
DG
SqDq
q
Lg SqLq

f1T
SqL
q
SqDq
DG

f1T
q
Lg
“Helicity sum rule”
gluon
spin
1 = P, 1 | J z | P, 1 = 1S z + S z + Lz + Lz
q
g å q
g
2
2 QCD 2 å
q 2
q
total u+d+s
quark spin
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Where do we stand
solving the “spin puzzle” ?
angular
momentum
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Probing the Proton Structure
 EM interaction
 Photon
 Sensitive to electric charge2
 Insensitive to color charge
 Strong interaction
 Gluon
 Sensitive to color charge
 Insensitive to flavor
 Weak interaction
 Weak Boson
 Sensitive to weak charge ~ flavor
 Insensitive to color
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What We Measure
Two-spin helicity asymmetry:
ALL 
versus
1 N++/L++  N+/L+
P1P2 N++/L++ + N+/L+
Can be large in pQCD hard scatter.
Stat. Unc. ~ (P12P22 L dt )1/2
One-spin helicity asym. AL violates parity
if non-vanishing, but can be large in weak
processes like W prod’n.
Single-spin transverse asym.
N/L  N/L
AN  1
P1 N/L + N/L
versus
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where  () are defined with
respect to reaction plane, is
suppressed by chiral symmetry in
pQCD hard scatter, but can occur
via non-pert. aspects of initial and
final-state spin dynamics.
Stat. Unc. ~ (P12 L dt )1/2
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Inclusive Jet Cross Section
pT [GeV/c]
pT [GeV/c]
• Data well described by NLO pQCD when including hadronization
and underlying event corrections from PYTHIA
• Hadronization and UE corrections more significant at low jet pT
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Inclusive Jet Asymmetry at s=200 GeV
STAR: Large acceptance
 Jets have been primary probe
 Not subject to uncertainties on
fragmentation functions, but need to
handle complexities of jet
reconstruction
ALL systematics
(x 10 -3)
Reconstruction
+ Trigger Bias
[-1,+3]
(pT dep)
p
+

e
p
Non-longitudinal ~ 0.03
Polarization
p
(pT dep)

Relative
Luminosity
0.94
Backgrounds
1st bin ~
0.5
Else ~ 0.1
pT systematic
6.7%
Helicity asymmetry measurement
GRSV curves and data with cone radius R= 0.7 and -0.7 <  < 0.9
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Studying Gluon Polarization at RHIC
s ++ - s +- Dfa Dfb
ALL = ++
µ
aˆ LL
+s +s
fa fb
Partonic fractions in jet
production at 200 GeV
0
10
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30 pT(GeV)
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Correlation pT – x and √s
2-2.5 GeV/c
4-5 GeV/c
9-12 GeV/c
 low pT  low x
 scale uncertainty
 high √s  low x
 forward rapidity  low x
2-2.5 GeV/c
4-5 GeV/c
9-12 GeV/c
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Star: Forward Physics program
 add electromagnetic calorimetry at forward rapidity
 access low and high x
TPC:
TPC:
BEC:
BEC:
-1.0
-1.0
-1.0
-1.0
<
<
<
<
 <
< 1.0
1.0

<
< 1.0
1.0

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2003: FPD: 3.3 <  < 4.1
2008: FMS: 2.5 <  < 4.1
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STAR Forward Pion
Detectors Permit
Study of Hadron
Prod’n @ High
Rapidity
Pb-glass arrays
S
N
High-energy p0 in this
region are predominantly
high-z fragments from
asymmetric q-g scattering
@ moderate pT
<z>
<xq>
NLO pQCD
Jaeger,Stratmann,Vogelsang,Kretzer
<xg>
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How to disentangle Sivers and Transversity
Sivers:
AN for direct photons
AN for jets
AN for dijets
AN for Ws
AN for heavy flavour  gluon Sivers
Transversity:
AN for angular modulation of p in around jet axis
Interference fragmentation function
proton spin
parton
kTx
x
y
z
BUT
 Processes Universality vs non-universality:
 Semi-Inclusive deep inelastic scattering ✔
 Drell-Yan ✔
✔ Watch out for sign flips !
 e+/e- annihilation ✔
 p + p  h1 + h2 + X ! !
TMD PDF is not just non-universal,
arXiv:1102.4569
it is ill-defined at the operator level !
 work has started to fix this problems
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2009 Inclusive Jet ALL
 Separate into two η bins which sample different partonic kinematics
 Models predict a ~20% reduction in ALL from |η|<0.5 to 0.5<|η|<1
 Data falls between DSSV and GRSV-STD in both ranges
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Charged pions opposite jets
ALL
ALL
 Trigger and reconstruct a jet, then look
for a charged pion on the opposite side
 Correlation measurement significantly
increases the sensitivity of ALL(π+)
Full NLO calculations for this observable:
de Florian, arXiv:0904.4402
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W → e + ν Candidate
Event
• Isolated track pointing to isolated
EM deposit in calorimeter
• Large “missing energy” opposite
electron candidate
Di-jet Background Event
• Several tracks pointing to EM
deposit in calorimeter spread
over a few towers
• Vector pt sum is balanced by
opposite jet, “missing energy” is
small
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W/Z Algorithm Description
 Match high pT track to BEMC
cluster
 Isolation Ratios
 Signed-Pt Balance
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Background Estimation
Sources:
 EWK: W -> τ , Z -> e+e-
 QCD: Data-driven
 Good Data/MC agreement
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RHIC: AL for W bosons
 RHIC: can detect only decay leptons;
lepton rapidity most suited observable
de Florian, Vogelsang, arXiv:1003.4533
• strong correlation with x1,2
 allows for flavor separation for 0.07 < x < 0.04
Δχ2 = 2% uncertainty bands
of DSSV analysis
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Δχ2 = 2% uncertainty bands
with RHIC data
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