The STAR W Spin Physics Program with $\sqrt{(}s)$ = 500 GeV Polarized pp Collisions at RHIC

Abstract

Production of W bosons in longitudinally polarized pp collisions provides an excellent tool to probe the flavor-dependence of sea quark polarizations in the polarized proton. Current status and future plans for the W physics program with the STAR detector at RHIC are presented along with remarks concerning our knowledge of the nature and origin of the partonic sea.

Talk given at the Tenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2009), 26-31 May 2009, San Diego CA, USA; 4 pages, 3 figures

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