Measurement of the Parity-Violating Longitudinal Single-Spin Asymmetry for W± Boson Production in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=500 GeV

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作者
Aggarwal, M. M. [1 ]
Ahammed, Z. [22 ]
Alakhverdyants, A. V. [18 ]
Alekseev, I. [16 ]
Alford, J. [19 ]
Anderson, B. D. [19 ]
Anson, C. D. [29 ]
Arkhipkin, D. [3 ]
Averichev, G. S. [18 ]
Balewski, J. [23 ]
Beavis, D. R. [3 ]
Bellwied, R. [50 ]
Betancourt, M. J. [23 ]
Betts, R. R. [8 ]
Bhasin, A. [17 ]
Bhati, A. K. [1 ]
Bichsel, H. [49 ]
Bielcik, J. [10 ]
Bielcikova, J. [11 ]
Biritz, B. [6 ]
Bland, L. C. [3 ]
Borowski, W. [41 ]
Bouchet, J. [19 ]
Braidot, E. [27 ,28 ]
Brandin, A. V. [26 ]
Bridgeman, A. [2 ]
Brovko, S. G. [5 ]
Bruna, E. [52 ]
Bueltmann, S. [30 ]
Bunzarov, I. [18 ]
Burton, T. P. [3 ]
Cai, X. Z. [40 ]
Caines, H. [52 ]
de la Barca Sanchez, M. Calderon [5 ]
Cebra, D. [5 ]
Cendejas, R. [6 ]
Cervantes, M. C. [42 ]
Chajecki, Z. [29 ]
Chaloupka, P. [11 ]
Chattopadhyay, S. [47 ]
Chen, H. F. [38 ]
Chen, J. H. [40 ]
Chen, J. Y. [51 ]
Cheng, J. [44 ]
Cherney, M. [9 ]
Chikanian, A. [52 ]
Choi, K. E. [34 ]
Christie, W. [3 ]
Chung, P. [11 ]
Codrington, M. J. M. [42 ]
机构
[1] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[5] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[6] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[7] Univ Estadual Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[8] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[9] Creighton Univ, Omaha, NE 68178 USA
[10] Czech Tech Univ, FNSPE, Prague 11519, Czech Republic
[11] Nucl Phys Inst AS CR, Rez 25068, Czech Republic
[12] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
[13] Inst Phys, Bhubaneswar 751005, Orissa, India
[14] Indian Inst Technol, Bombay 400076, Maharashtra, India
[15] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA
[16] Alikhanov Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia
[17] Univ Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
[18] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[19] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[20] Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[21] Inst Modern Phys, Lanzhou, Peoples R China
[22] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[23] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[24] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[25] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[26] Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[27] NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[28] Univ Utrecht, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[29] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[30] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[31] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[32] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[33] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[34] Pusan Natl Univ, Pusan 609735, South Korea
[35] Univ Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, Rajasthan, India
[36] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77251 USA
[37] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[38] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[39] Shandong Univ, Jinan 250100, Shandong, Peoples R China
[40] Shanghai Inst Appl Phys, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China
[41] SUBATECH, Nantes, France
[42] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[43] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[44] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[45] USN Acad, Annapolis, MD 21402 USA
[46] Valparaiso Univ, Valparaiso, IN 46383 USA
[47] Ctr Variable Energy Cyclotron, Kolkata 700064, India
[48] Warsaw Univ Technol, Warsaw, Poland
[49] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[50] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48201 USA
基金
巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER; DISTRIBUTIONS; PHYSICS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.062002
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We report the first measurement of the parity-violating single-spin asymmetries for midrapidity decay positrons and electrons from W+ and W- boson production in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at root s = 500 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The measured asymmetries, A(L)(W+) = -0.27 +/- 0.10(stat.) +/- 0.02(syst.) +/- 0.03(norm.) and A(L)(W-) = 0.14 +/- 0.19(stat.) +/- 0.02(syst.) +/- 0.01(norm.), are consistent with theory predictions, which are large and of opposite sign. These predictions are based on polarized quark and antiquark distribution functions constrained by polarized deep-inelastic scattering measurements.
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