Is there a hadron spin-flip contribution to the Coulomb-hadron interference at small momentum transfer and high energies?
Abstract.The analysing power AN is examined in the range of the Coulomb-hadron interference on the basis of the experimental data from pL = 6 GeV/c up to 200 GeV/c taking account of a phenomenological analysis at pL = 6 GeV/c and a dynamic high-energy spin model. The results are compared with the new RHIC data at pL = 100 GeV/c. The new experimental data obtained at RHIC indicate small contributions of the hadron spin-flip amplitude.