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

Authors

STAR Collaboration
Adam Gibson, Valparaiso University
Shrivel Stanislaus, Valparaiso University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2019

Journal Title

Physical Review D

Volume

99

Abstract

We report new STAR measurements of the single-spin asymmetries AL for W+ and W− bosons produced in polarized proton-proton collisions at √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 ¯u and ¯d quark helicity distributions for 0.05

Recommended Citation

STAR Collaboration; Gibson, Adam; and Stanislaus, Shrivel, "Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 510     GeV" (2019). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 189.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/phys_astro_fac_pub/189