Measurement of Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries for Weak Boson Production in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at RHIC
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Balewski, Jan T.; Stevens, Justin; van Nieuwenhuizen, Gerrit J
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We report measurements of single- and double-spin asymmetries for W[superscript ±] and Z/γ[superscript ∗] boson production in longitudinally polarized p + p collisions at √s = 510 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The asymmetries for W[superscript ±] were measured as a function of the decay lepton pseudorapidity, which provides a theoretically clean probe of the proton’s polarized quark distributions at the scale of the W mass. The results are compared to theoretical predictions, constrained by polarized deep inelastic scattering measurements, and show a preference for a sizable, positive up antiquark polarization in the range 0.05 < x < 0.2.
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2014-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Adamczyk, L., J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, et al. “Measurement of Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries for Weak Boson Production in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at RHIC.” Physical Review Letters 113, no. 7 (August 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114