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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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Abstract
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.
Date issued
2014-08
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91224
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
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

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