Article
Measurement of parity-violating spin asymmetries in W-+/- production at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized p plus p collisions
Physical Review D
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
3-1-2016
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.051103
Abstract
We present midrapidity measurements from the PHENIX experiment of large parity-violating single-spin asymmetries of high transverse momentum electrons and positrons from W-+/-/Z decays, produced in longitudinally polarized p + p collisions at center of mass energies of root s = 500 and 510 GeV. These asymmetries allow direct access to the antiquark polarized parton distribution functions due to the parity-violating nature of the W-boson coupling to quarks and antiquarks. The results presented are based on data collected in 2011, 2012, and 2013 with an integrated luminosity of 240 pb(-1), which exceeds previous PHENIX published results by a factor of more than 27. These high Q(2) data probe the parton structure of the proton at W mass scale and provide an important addition to our understanding of the antiquark parton helicity distribution functions at an intermediate Bjorken x value of roughly M-W / root s = 0.16.
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2016
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Andrew Adare, Nicole Apadula, Sarah C. Campbell, Lei Ding, et al.. "Measurement of parity-violating spin asymmetries in W-+/- production at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized p plus p collisions" Physical Review D Vol. 93 Iss. 5 (2016) p. 051103 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/40/
This is an article from Physical Review D 93 (2016): 051103, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.051103. Posted with permission.