Cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetry of muons from open heavy-flavor decays in polarized collisions at =200 GeV

=200GeVでの偏極陽子-陽子衝突における重いクォークの崩壊からのミューオンの生成断面積とシングルスピン非対称性

Aidala, C.*; 長谷川 勝一   ; 今井 憲一; 永宮 正治; 佐甲 博之   ; 佐藤 進  ; 谷田 聖   ; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他431名*

Aidala, C.*; Hasegawa, Shoichi; Imai, Kenichi; Nagamiya, Shoji; Sako, Hiroyuki; Sato, Susumu; Tanida, Kiyoshi; PHENIX Collaboration*; 431 of others*

The cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetries of and from open heavy-flavor decays in polarized collisions at = 200 GeV were measured by the PHENIX experiment during 2012 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Because heavy-flavor production is dominated by gluon-gluon interactions at = 200 GeV, these measurements offer a unique opportunity to obtain information on the trigluon correlation functions. The measurements are performed at forward and backward rapidity () over the transverse momentum range of GeV/ for the cross section and GeV/ for the asymmetry measurements. The obtained cross section is compared to a fixed-order-plus-next-to-leading-log perturbative-quantum-chromodynamics calculation. The asymmetry results are consistent with zero within uncertainties, and a model calculation based on twist-3 three-gluon correlations agrees with the data.