Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry of Electrons from Heavy Flavor Decays in Polarized p + p Collisions at √s = 200 GeV

• Main Author: Nakamura, Katsuro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Particle acceleration.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

In this thesis, the measurement of double-spin asymmetry for electron production from heavy flavor decays was performed in a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure the polarized parton distribution function of gluon in the small B...

Table of Contents:

• Nucleon Spin Physics
• Experimental Setup
• Electron Analysis
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion.