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Measurement of longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC

  • L. Adamczyk
  • , J. K. Adkins
  • , G. Agakishiev
  • , M. M. Aggarwal
  • , Z. Ahammed
  • , I. Alekseev
  • , J. Alford
  • , C. D. Anson
  • , A. Aparin
  • , D. Arkhipkin
  • , E. C. Aschenauer
  • , G. S. Averichev
  • , J. Balewski
  • , A. Banerjee
  • , D. R. Beavis
  • , R. Bellwied
  • , A. Bhasin
  • , A. K. Bhati
  • , P. Bhattarai
  • , H. Bichsel
  • J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L. C. Bland, I. G. Bordyuzhin, W. Borowski, J. Bouchet, A. V. Brandin, S. G. Brovko, S. Bültmann, I. Bunzarov, T. P. Burton, J. Butterworth, H. Caines, M. Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, J. M. Campbell, D. Cebra, R. Cendejas, M. C. Cervantes, P. Chaloupka, Z. Chang, S. Chattopadhyay, H. F. Chen, J. H. Chen, L. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, W. Christie, J. Chwastowski, M. J.M. Codrington, G. Contin, J. G. Cramer, H. J. Crawford, X. Cui, S. Das, A. Davila Leyva, L. C. De Silva, R. R. Debbe, T. G. Dedovich, J. Deng, A. A. Derevschikov, R. Derradi De Souza, S. Dhamija, B. Di Ruzza, L. Didenko, C. Dilks, F. Ding, P. Djawotho, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. E. Draper, C. M. Du, L. E. Dunkelberger, J. C. Dunlop, L. G. Efimov, J. Engelage, K. S. Engle, G. Eppley, L. Eun, O. Evdokimov, O. Eyser, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, J. Fedorisin, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C. E. Flores, C. A. Gagliardi, D. R. Gangadharan, D. Garand, F. Geurts, A. Gibson, M. Girard, S. Gliske, L. Greiner, D. Grosnick, D. S. Gunarathne, Y. Guo, A. Gupta, S. Gupta, W. Guryn, B. Haag, A. Hamed, L. X. Han, R. Haque, J. W. Harris, S. Heppelmann, A. Hirsch, G. W. Hoffmann, D. J. Hofman, S. Horvat, B. Huang, H. Z. Huang, X. Huang, P. Huck, T. J. Humanic, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, H. Jang, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, D. Kalinkin, K. Kang, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, A. Kesich, Z. H. Khan, D. P. Kikola, I. Kisel, A. Kisiel, D. D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, J. Konzer, I. Koralt, L. K. Kosarzewski, L. Kotchenda, A. F. Kraishan, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, I. Kulakov, L. Kumar, R. A. Kycia, M. A.C. Lamont, J. M. Landgraf, K. D. Landry, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, M. J. Levine, C. Li, W. Li, X. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, Z. M. Li, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, M. Lomnitz, R. S. Longacre, X. Luo, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, D. M.M.D. Madagodagettige Don, D. P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H. S. Matis, D. McDonald, T. S. McShane, N. G. Minaev, S. Mioduszewski, B. Mohanty, M. M. Mondal, D. A. Morozov, M. K. Mustafa, B. K. Nandi, Md Nasim, T. K. Nayak, J. M. Nelson, G. Nigmatkulov, L. V. Nogach, S. Y. Noh, J. Novak, S. B. Nurushev, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, A. Ohlson, V. Okorokov, E. W. Oldag, D. L. Olvitt, M. Pachr, B. S. Page, S. K. Pal, Y. X. Pan, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, P. Pile, M. Planinic, J. Pluta, N. Poljak, K. Poniatowska, J. Porter, A. M. Poskanzer, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, P. R. Pujahari, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, A. Quintero, S. Ramachandran, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. L. Ray, C. K. Riley, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, J. F. Ross, A. Roy, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, O. Rusnakova, N. R. Sahoo, P. K. Sahu, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, J. Sandweiss, E. Sangaline, A. Sarkar, J. Schambach, R. P. Scharenberg, A. M. Schmah, W. B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, J. Seger, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, P. V. Shanmuganathan, M. Shao, B. Sharma, W. Q. Shen, S. S. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, R. N. Singaraju, M. J. Skoby, D. Smirnov, N. Smirnov, D. Solanki, P. Sorensen, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D.S. Stanislaus, J. R. Stevens, R. Stock, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, M. Sumbera, X. Sun, X. M. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, T. J.M. Symons, M. A. Szelezniak, J. Takahashi, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, T. Tarnowsky, J. H. Thomas, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, B. A. Trzeciak, O. D. Tsai, J. Turnau, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, G. Van Nieuwenhuizen, M. Vandenbroucke, J. A. Vanfossen, R. Varma, G. M.S. Vasconcelos, A. N. Vasiliev, R. Vertesi, F. Videbæk, Y. P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, A. Vossen, M. Wada, F. Wang, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. S. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, G. D. Westfall, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, Y. F. Wu, Z. Xiao, W. Xie, K. Xin, H. Xu, J. Xu, N. Xu, Q. H. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, W. Yan, C. Yang, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Ye, P. Yepes, L. Yi, K. Yip, I. K. Yoo, N. Yu, Y. Zawisza, H. Zbroszczyk, W. Zha, J. B. Zhang, J. L. Zhang, S. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, X. Zhu, Y. H. Zhu, Y. Zoulkarneeva, M. Zyzak
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • University of Kentucky
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Panjab University
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Kent State University
  • Ohio State University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Houston
  • University of Jammu
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Washington
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • SUBATECH
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • University of California at Davis
  • Old Dominion University
  • Rice University
  • Yale University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Central China Normal University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Creighton University
  • Cracow University of Technology
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
  • Shandong University
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Valparaiso University
  • CAS - Institute of Modern Physics
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • United States Naval Academy
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Purdue University
  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Temple University
  • National Institute of Science Education and Research
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • University of Birmingham
  • Michigan State University
  • Pusan National University
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN
  • University of Zagreb
  • Wayne State University
  • University of Rajasthan
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)

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Abstract

We report measurements of single- and double-spin asymmetries for W± and Z/γ* boson production in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at s=510GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The asymmetries for W± 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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number072301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume113
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Aug 2014
Externally publishedYes

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