Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV

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 $Z/{\gamma }^{\ast }$ production and subsequent decay into electron--positron pairs.

arXiv comment8 pages, 6 figures

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