Forward transverse single spin asymmetries at PHENIX

Recent measurements of single transverse spin asymmetries in proton-proton collisions measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC are presented. The focus is on the single particle left-right asymmetry AN for π⁰ at √s = 200 GeV and √s = 62.4 GeV and the measurement of di-hadron correlations at √s = 200 GeV which are produced by the fragmentation of a transversely polarized quark via the Interference Fragmentation Function (IFF) H1^< and thus provide a probe for the quark transversity distribution function.

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Author Anselm G. Vossen Physics