Feasibility studies for the measurement of single-spin asymmetry in inclusive K⁰ _s production at pion beam at U-70

Abstract

In the Spring 2018, the first physics data was accumulated in the new SPASCHARM experiment at U-70 accelerator of IHEP, Protvino. The first stage of SPASCHARM’s physics programs prursues the goal of studying spin effects in the beam fragmentation region at an unpolarized negative 28 GeV beam, interacting with a frozen polarized proton target. In this resport, the feasibility of measuring the single spin asymmetry AN in the reaction: π − + p↑→K 0 S + X is evaluated by Monte-Carlo simulations. We present estimates of the detection efficiency as well as for expected event statistics. It is shown that, in the process of interest above, the attainable statistical errors for AN would be at the scale of a few percents.