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Energy Independence of the Collins Asymmetry in p↑p Collisions

B. E. Aboona58, J. Adam17, L. Adamczyk3, I. Aggarwal45, M. M. Aggarwal45, Z. Ahammed66, A. K. Alshammri33, E. C. Aschenauer7, S. Aslam22 et al. (STAR Collaboration)

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Zhu61, M. Zurek4,7, and M. Zyzak21 (STAR Collaboration)

  • 1Academia Sinica, Taipei 115
  • 2Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699
  • 3AGH University of Krakow, FPACS, Cracow 30-059, Poland
  • 4Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439
  • 5American University in Cairo, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
  • 6Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 47306
  • 7Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
  • 8University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza, Rende 87036, Italy
  • 9University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
  • 10University of California, Davis, California 95616
  • 11University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
  • 12University of California, Riverside, California 92521
  • 13Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079
  • 14University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
  • 15Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331
  • 16Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178
  • 17Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
  • 18Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt 64289, Germany
  • 19National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur 713209, India
  • 20ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary H-1117
  • 21Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies FIAS, Frankfurt 60438, Germany
  • 22Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433
  • 23Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004
  • 24University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
  • 25University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204
  • 26Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang 313000
  • 27Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Berhampur 760010, India
  • 28Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati 517507, India
  • 29Indian Institute Technology, Patna, Bihar 801106, India
  • 30Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408
  • 31Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000
  • 32University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
  • 33Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
  • 34University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055
  • 35Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000
  • 36Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
  • 37Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
  • 38Lovely Professional University, Pagwara, Panjab 144411, India
  • 39Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich 80805, Germany
  • 40Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
  • 41National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
  • 42National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101
  • 43Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Rez 250 68, Czech Republic
  • 44The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  • 45Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
  • 46Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
  • 47Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
  • 48Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
  • 49University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026
  • 50South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510631
  • 51Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Republic of Korea
  • 52Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237
  • 53Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800
  • 54Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut 06515
  • 55State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794
  • 56Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile
  • 57Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
  • 58Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
  • 59Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, 77004
  • 60University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
  • 61Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
  • 62University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
  • 63University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408
  • 64United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402
  • 65Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
  • 66Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata 700064, India
  • 67Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw 00-661, Poland
  • 68Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
  • 69Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430065
  • 70Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 261902 – Published 26 December, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/jgsw-zhny

Abstract

The STAR experiment reports new, high-precision measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries for π± within jets, namely the Collins asymmetries, from transversely polarized p↑p collisions at s=510  GeV. The energy-scaled distribution of jet transverse momentum, xT=2pT,jet/s, shows a remarkable consistency for Collins asymmetries of π± in jets between s=200  GeV and 510 GeV. This indicates that the Collins asymmetries are nearly energy independent, with, at most, a very weak scale dependence in p↑p collisions. These results extend to high-momentum scales (Q2≤3400  GeV2) and enable unique tests of evolution and universality in the transverse-momentum-dependent formalism, thus providing important constraints for the Collins fragmentation functions.

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