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1 Investigating Proton Structure at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider University of Michigan Christine Aidala November 19, 2014 HiX Workshop, Frascati

2 The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory A collider-based program, but not designed to be at the energy (or intensity) frontier. More closely analogous to many areas of condensed matter research—create a system and study its properties What systems are we studying? –“Simple” QCD bound states—the proton is the simplest stable bound state in QCD (and conveniently, nature has already created it for us!) –Collections of QCD bound states (nuclei, also available out of the box!) –QCD deconfined! (quark-gluon plasma, some assembly required!) C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 2 Understand more complex QCD systems within the context of simpler ones  RHIC designed from the start as a single facility capable of nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus, and proton-proton collisions

3 3 Proton spin structure at RHIC, J ets Back-to-Back Correlations Single-Spin Asymmetries Transverse-momentum- dependent distributions Advantages of a polarized proton-proton collider: - Hadronic collisions  Leading-order access to gluons - High energies  Applicability of perturbative QCD - High energies  Production of new probes: W bosons C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Transverse spin and spin-momentum correlations

4 Reliance on input from simpler systems Disadvantage of hadronic collisions: much “messier” than deep-inelastic scattering  Rely on input from simpler systems –Just as the heavy ion program at RHIC relies on information from simpler collision systems The more we know from simpler systems such as DIS and e+e- annihilation, the more we can in turn learn from hadronic collisions! C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 4

5 RHIC performance for polarized protons C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 5

6 RHIC’s current main experiments STAR: Key strengths jets + correlations Full acceptance including PID for |  |< 1,  Forward EM calorimetry PHENIX: High resolution; high rate capabilities for rare probes Central arms |  |<0.35,  with key strength measuring EM probes Muon arms 1.2<|  |<2.4 Forward EM calorimetry C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 6

7 Probing the helicity structure of the nucleon with p+p collisions Leading-order access to gluons   G DIS pQCD e+e- ? Study difference in particle production rates for same-helicity vs. opposite- helicity proton collisions 7

8 Neutral pion and jet double-helicity asymmetries C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 8  0 200 GeV - PRD90, 012007 (2014)  0 510 GeV - Preliminary

9 Neutral pion and jet double-helicity asymmetries Clear nonzero asymmetry seen in STAR jet measurements from 2009 data! PHENIX  0 data consistent C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 9 arXiv:1405.5134

10 Two new helicity pdf fits C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 10 DSSV, PRL 113, 012001 (2014)NNPDF, NPB 887.276 (2014) DSSV and NNPDF have released new polarized pdf fits including RHIC data 2009 STAR jet A LL results in particular provide significantly tighter constraints on gluon polarization than previous measurements Both find evidence for positive gluon polarization in the region x > 0.05 – See talks by M. Stratmann and E. Nocera

11 Other recently measured probes sensitive to gluon helicity C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 11 PRD90, 012007 (2014) Midrapidity  200 GeV arXiv:1409.1907 PRD89, 012001 (2014) Very forward  0 510 GeV Forward  0 Can provide complementary information. Extending measurements to more forward rapidity and different √s will expand x range probed.

12 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 12 Flavor-separated sea quark helicities through W production Parity violation of weak interaction + control over proton spin orientation gives access to flavor-spin structure of proton Flavor separation of the polarized sea quarks with no reliance on fragmentation functions, and at much higher scale than previous fixed-target experiments. Complementary to semi-inclusive DIS measurements.

13 World W cross section measurements C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 13 RHIC data

14 Large parity-violating single-helicity asymmetries Improve constraints on light antiquark helicity distributions –See talks by M. Stratmann, E. Nocera New preliminary PHENIX muon results extend rapidity range C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 14

15 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Transverse single-spin asymmetries: From low to high energies! ANL  s=4.9 GeV 15 BNL  s=6.6 GeV FNAL  s=19.4 GeV RHIC  s=62.4 GeV left right PRD90, 012006 (2014) 00

16 Effects persist up to transverse momenta of 7(!) GeV/c at √s=500 GeV Can try to interpret these non-perturbative effects within the framework of perturbative QCD. Haven’t yet disentangled all the possible contributing effects to the (messy) process of p+p to pions C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 16 00

17 New eta A N from PHENIX C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 17 PRD90, 072008 (2014) Large  A N observed by STAR and PHENIX (and E704), similar in magnitude to  0 Expect to measure forward direct photons from 2015 data for p+p, p+A with transverse proton polarization— minimal sensitivity to final-state effects PHENIX MPC-EX forward preshower upgrade

18 Transverse single-spin asymmetry in dihadron production from STAR Nonzero result observed in 200 GeV Collinear process— should be cleanly sensitive to transversity times dihadron interference FF Recent results from 500 GeV—also nonzero, and larger for larger pair p T and larger pseudorapidity C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 18 Bacchetta, Courtoy, Radici, JHEP 1303, 119 (2013) Kinematic coverage overlaps HERMES, COMPASS

19 Modified universality of T-odd transverse-momentum-dependent distributions: Color in action! C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering: Attractive final-state interactions Quark-antiquark annihilation to leptons: Repulsive initial-state interactions As a result, get opposite sign for the Sivers transverse- momentum-dependent pdf when measure in semi-inclusive DIS versus Drell-Yan: process-dependent pdf! (Collins 2002) Still waiting for a polarized quark-antiquark annihilation measurement to compare to existing lepton-nucleon scattering measurements... 19

20 Probing modified universality via W production at RHIC Possible long 510 GeV run in 2016 –Could measure W A N with uncertainty ~0.06 at STAR C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 20

21 Modified universality requires full QCD: Gauge-invariant quantum field theory C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 21 From M. Anselmino, Transversity 2014 Collins, 1993

22 Physical consequences of a gauge-invariant quantum theory: Aharonov-Bohm (1959) C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Wikipedia: “The Aharonov–Bohm effect is important conceptually because it bears on three issues apparent in the recasting of (Maxwell's) classical electromagnetic theory as a gauge theory, which before the advent of quantum mechanics could be argued to be a mathematical reformulation with no physical consequences. The Aharonov–Bohm thought experiments and their experimental realization imply that the issues were not just philosophical. The three issues are: whether potentials are "physical" or just a convenient tool for calculating force fields; whether action principles are fundamental; the principle of locality.” 22

23 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Physics Today, September 2009 : The Aharonov–Bohm effects: Variations on a subtle theme, by Herman Batelaan and Akira Tonomura. “Aharonov stresses that the arguments that led to the prediction of the various electromagnetic AB effects apply equally well to any other gauge-invariant quantum theory. In the standard model of particle physics, the strong and weak nuclear interactions are also described by gauge-invariant theories. So one may expect that particle-physics experimenters will be looking for new AB effects in new domains.” 23 Physical consequences of a gauge-invariant quantum theory: Aharonov-Bohm (1959)

24 Physical consequences of a gauge-invariant quantum theory: Aharonov-Bohm effect in QCD!! C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering: Attractive final-state interactions Quark-antiquark annihilation to leptons: Repulsive initial-state interactions As a result: 24 See e.g. Pijlman, hep-ph/0604226 or Sivers, arXiv:1109.2521 Simplicity of these two processes: Abelian vs. non-Abelian nature of the gauge group doesn’t play a major qualitative role. BUT: In QCD expect additional, new effects due to specific non-Abelian nature of the gauge group

25 QCD Aharonov-Bohm effect: Color entanglement 2010: Rogers and Mulders predict color entanglement in processes involving p+p production of hadrons if quark transverse momentum taken into account Quarks become correlated across the two protons Consequence of QCD specifically as a non-Abelian gauge theory! C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Color flow can’t be described as flow in the two gluons separately. Requires simultaneous presence of both. PRD 81:094006 (2010) 25

26 p+A   + +  - +X for different invariant masses: No color entanglement expected C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Landry et al., 2002 PRD82, 072001 (2010) Out-of-plane momentum component 26 Testing the Aharonov-Bohm effect in QCD as a non-Abelian gauge theory Get predictions from fits to data where no entanglement expected Make predictions for processes where entanglement is expected; look for deviation Drell-Yan lepton pair production Hadron pair production

27 Summary and outlook Data from RHIC are helping to constrain the gluon and flavor-separated sea quark helicity distributions Lots of interesting effects continue to be observed in transverse single-spin asymmetries in p+p –Spin-momentum and spin-spin correlations Additional results forthcoming from 2012 and 2013 data sets Stay tuned for polarized p+p and p+A running in 2015! C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 27 Hadronic interactions play a complementary role to DIS in the study of nucleon structure, and allow further exploration of color effects

28 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Additional Material 28

29 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 Neutral pion cross sections 62.4 GeV PRD79, 012003 (2009) 200 GeV 29

30 Jet reconstruction at STAR 30 Parton Particle Detector Pythia Geant For 2006 200 GeV data: Mid-point cone algorithm Adapted from Tevatron II – hep-ex/0005012 a.Seed energy = 0.5 GeV b.Cone radius R = 0.7 in η-φ space c.Split/merge fraction f = 0.5 For 2009 200 GeV data Anti-k T algorithm Cacciari, Salam, and Soyez, JHEP 0804, 063 o Cone radius R = 0.6 For 2012 510 GeV data Anti-k T algorithm o Cone radius R = 0.5 Use Pythia + Geant to quantify detector response C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014

31 Jet double-helicity asymmetry at 510 GeV Also clearly nonzero C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 31

32 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 32 Sampling the integral of  G:  0 p T vs. x gluon Based on simulation using NLO pQCD as input Inclusive asymmetry measurements in p+p collisions sample from wide bins in x— sensitive to (truncated) integral of  G, not to functional form vs. x PRL 103, 012003 (2009) √s = 200 GeV

33 Dijet cross section at 200 GeV and 500 GeV C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 33 Di-jet cross section well described by NLO pQCD with corrections for hadronization and underlying event 200 GeV 500 GeV STAR

34 Dijet double helicity asymmetry C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 34 STAR Clear nonzero asymmetry observed Can better reconstruct hard scattering kinematics to pin down x values probed

35 PHENIX Run-13 preliminary W peaks (midrapidity) C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 35

36 Forward eta cross section at 200 GeV C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 36 PRD90, 072008 (2014)

37 Transverse single-spin asymmetry in dihadron production C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 37

38 Transverse single-spin asymmetry in dihadron production C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 38

39 Azimuthal distribution of pions within jets Collins-like measurement Nonzero effect observed C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 39

40 Azimuthal distribution of pions within jets C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 40

41  and  0 A N at midrapidity C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 41 Sensitive to gg, qg scattering Consistent with zero

42 Enhanced A N for isolated forward neutral pions C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 42

43 Open heavy flavor A N to probe twist-3 trigluon correlations C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 43 Expect measurement with ~0.01 accuracy from 2015 data, with displaced vertex heavy flavor tagging

44 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014  K p  200 GeV 62.4 GeV , K, p at 200 and 62.4 GeV K- asymmetries underpredicted Note different scales 62.4 GeV p K Large antiproton asymmetry?? Unfortunately no 62.4 GeV measurement 44 Pattern of pion species asymmetries in the forward direction  valence quark effect. But this conclusion confounded by kaon and antiproton asymmetries!

45 Another surprise: Transverse single-spin asymmetry in eta meson production STAR Larger than the neutral pion! Further evidence against a valence quark effect! Lots of territory still to explore to understand spin- momentum correlations in QCD! 45 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 PRD 86:051101 (2012)

46 C. Aidala, HiX Workshop, November 19, 2014 AGS LINAC BOOSTER Polarized Source Spin Rotators 200 MeV Polarimeter AGS Internal Polarimeter Rf Dipole RHIC pC Polarimeters Absolute Polarimeter (H jet) P HENIX P HOBOS B RAHMS & PP2PP S TAR AGS pC Polarimeter Partial Snake Siberian Snakes Helical Partial Snake Strong Snake Spin Flipper RHIC as a polarized p+p collider Various equipment to maintain and measure beam polarization through acceleration and storage 46

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