학술논문

Measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in proton-proton collisions at s=510 GeV
Document Type
article
Source
Physical Review D. 99(5)
Subject
Nuclear and Plasma Physics
Particle and High Energy Physics
Physical Sciences
hep-ex
Language
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 ū and d quark helicity distributions for 0.05