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MC simulation of vector boson production in polarized proton collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present a Monte Carlo (MC) study of W±W^{\pm} and Z0Z_{0} production of longitudinally polarized proton collisions at a center of mass (CMS) energy of 500GeV500\,{\rm GeV}. All results were obtained with the SPHINX MC code. We consider two different types of polarized parton distributions with large and small gluon polarization. Various spin asymmetries are found to be sensitive to the shape of the polarized gluon distribution between 0.1<x<0.50.1\stackrel{<}{\sim}x\stackrel{<}{\sim}0.5. The asymmetries are approximately constant with respect to the transverse momentum carried by the W±W^{\pm} and Z0Z_{0}, {\em except} if the first moment of the gluon polarization is large. In this case some W±W^{\pm} asymmetries show a significant variation with transverse momentum.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9603288,
  title  = {MC simulation of vector boson production in polarized proton collisions},
  author = {Axel Saalfeld and Andreas Schafer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9603288},
  year   = {2007}
}

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20 pages, RevTeX, 7 figures included