Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at √<i>s</i>=510 GeV



Adam, J, Adamczyk, L, Adams, JR, Adkins, JK, Agakishiev, G, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alekseev, I, Anderson, DM, Aoyama, R
et al (show 344 more authors) (2019) Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at √<i>s</i>=510 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 99 (5). 051102-.

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Abstract

We report new STAR measurements of the single-spin asymmetries $A_L$ for $W^+$ and $W^-$ bosons produced in polarized proton--proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV as a function of the decay-positron and decay-electron pseudorapidity. The data were obtained in 2013 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 250 pb$^{-1}$. The results are combined with previous results obtained with 86 pb$^{-1}$. A comparison with theoretical expectations based on polarized lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and prior polarized proton--proton data suggests a difference between the $\bar{u}$ and $\bar{d}$ quark helicity distributions for $0.05 < x < 0.25$. In addition, we report new results for the double-spin asymmetries $A_{LL}$ for $W^\pm$, as well as $A_L$ for $Z/\gamma^*$ production and subsequent decay into electron--positron pairs.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 8 pages, 6 figures
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 May 2019 08:55
Last Modified: 15 Oct 2023 11:37
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.051102
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.051102
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3040211