Phys. Rev. C
77,
061902(R)
(2008)
[7 pages]
Spin alignment measurements of the K*0(892) and ϕ(1020) vector mesons in heavy ion collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
B. I. Abelev et al. STAR Collaboration
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B. I. Abelev10, M. M. Aggarwal32, Z. Ahammed47, B. D. Anderson21, D. Arkhipkin14, G. S. Averichev13, Y. Bai30, J. Balewski25, O. Barannikova10, L. S. Barnby2, J. Baudot19, S. Baumgart52, D. R. Beavis3, R. Bellwied50, F. Benedosso30, R. R. Betts10, S. Bhardwaj37, A. Bhasin20, A. K. Bhati32, H. Bichsel49, J. Bielcik12, J. Bielcikova12, B. Biritz7, L. C. Bland3, M. Bombara2, B. E. Bonner38, M. Botje30, J. Bouchet21, E. Braidot30, A. V. Brandin28, S. Bueltmann3, T. P. Burton2, M. Bystersky12, X. Z. Cai41, H. Caines52, M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez6, J. Callner10, O. Catu52, D. Cebra6, R. Cendejas7, M. C. Cervantes43, Z. Chajecki31, P. Chaloupka12, S. Chattopadhyay47, H. F. Chen40, J. H. Chen41, J. Y. Chen51, J. Cheng45, M. Cherney11, A. Chikanian52, K. E. Choi36, W. Christie3, S. U. Chung3, R. F. Clarke43, M. J. M. Codrington43, J. P. Coffin19, T. M. Cormier50, M. R. Cosentino39, J. G. Cramer49, H. J. Crawford5, D. Das6, S. Dash16, M. Daugherity44, M. M. de Moura39, T. G. Dedovich13, M. DePhillips3, A. A. Derevschikov34, R. Derradi de Souza8, L. Didenko3, T. Dietel15, P. Djawotho18, S. M. Dogra20, X. Dong24, J. L. Drachenberg43, J. E. Draper6, F. Du52, J. C. Dunlop3, M. R. Dutta Mazumdar47, W. R. Edwards24, L. G. Efimov13, E. Elhalhuli2, M. Elnimr50, V. Emelianov28, J. Engelage5, G. Eppley38, B. Erazmus42, M. Estienne19, L. Eun33, P. Fachini3, R. Fatemi22, J. Fedorisin13, A. Feng51, P. Filip14, E. Finch52, V. Fine3, Y. Fisyak3, C. A. Gagliardi43, L. Gaillard2, D. R. Gangadharan7, M. S. Ganti47, E. Garcia-Solis10, V. Ghazikhanian7, P. Ghosh47, Y. N. Gorbunov11, A. Gordon3, O. Grebenyuk30, D. Grosnick46, B. Grube36, S. M. Guertin7, K. S. F. F. Guimaraes39, A. Gupta20, N. Gupta20, W. Guryn3, B. Haag6, T. J. Hallman3, A. Hamed43, J. W. Harris52, W. He18, M. Heinz52, S. Heppelmann33, B. Hippolyte19, A. Hirsch35, A. M. Hoffman25, G. W. Hoffmann44, D. J. Hofman10, R. S. Hollis10, H. Z. Huang7, E. W. Hughes4, T. J. Humanic31, G. Igo7, A. Iordanova10, P. Jacobs24, W. W. 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Wada44, W. T. Waggoner11, F. Wang35, G. Wang7, J. S. Wang23, Q. Wang35, X. Wang45, X. L. Wang40, Y. Wang45, J. C. Webb46, G. D. Westfall27, C. Whitten, Jr.7, H. Wieman24, S. W. Wissink18, R. Witt52, J. Wu40, Y. Wu51, N. Xu24, Q. H. Xu24, Z. Xu3, P. Yepes38, I-K. Yoo36, Q. Yue45, M. Zawisza48, H. Zbroszczyk48, W. Zhan23, H. Zhang3, S. Zhang41, W. M. Zhang21, Y. Zhang40, Z. P. Zhang40, Y. Zhao40, C. Zhong41, J. Zhou38, R. Zoulkarneev14, Y. Zoulkarneeva14, and J. X. Zuo41 (STAR Collaboration)
1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
3Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
5University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
6University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
7University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
8Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
9Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
10University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
11Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA
12Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, 250 68 Řež / Prague, Czech Republic
13Laboratory for High Energy (JINR), Dubna, Russia
14Particle Physics Laboratory (JINR), Dubna, Russia
15University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
16Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
17Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
18Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA
19Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France
20University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
21Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
22University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055, USA
23Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
24Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
25Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
26Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
27Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
28Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow Russia
29City College of New York, New York City, New York 10031, USA
30NIKHEF and Utrecht University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
31Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
32Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
33Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
34Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
35Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
36Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
37University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, India
38Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
39Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
40University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
41Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
42SUBATECH, Nantes, France
43Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
44University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
45Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
46Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
47Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
48Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
49University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
50Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
51Institute of Particle Physics, CCNU (HZNU), Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China
52Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
53University of Zagreb, Zagreb, HR-10002, Croatia
Received 11 January 2008; published 12 June 2008
We present the first spin alignment measurements for the K*0(892) and ϕ(1020) vector mesons produced at midrapidity with transverse momenta up to 5 GeV/c at √sNN=200 GeV at RHIC. The diagonal spin-density matrix elements with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions are ρ00=0.32±0.04 (stat) ± 0.09 (syst) for the K*0 (0.8<pT<5.0 GeV/c) and ρ00=0.34±0.02 (stat) ± 0.03 (syst) for the ϕ (0.4<pT<5.0 GeV/c) and are constant with transverse momentum and collision centrality. The data are consistent with the unpolarized expectation of 1/3 and thus no evidence is found for the transfer of the orbital angular momentum of the colliding system to the vector-meson spins. Spin alignments for K*0 and ϕ in Au+Au collisions were also measured with respect to the particle's production plane. The ϕ result, ρ00=0.41±0.02 (stat) ± 0.04 (syst), is consistent with that in p+p collisions, ρ00=0.39±0.03 (stat) ± 0.06 (syst), also measured in this work. The measurements thus constrain the possible size of polarization phenomena in the production dynamics of vector mesons.
© 2008 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.77.061902
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.061902
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