Probing polarized valence quark distributions in $W^{-}$-boson production

Pavel M. Nadolsky

Probing polarized valence quark distributions in $W^{-}$-boson production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-03 v2

Authors: Pavel M. Nadolsky

Abstract

While EMC-SMC-E142 data sheds new light on the behavior of polarized parton distributions at small and intermediate $x$ , it may be also interesting to study valence quark polarizations at large $x$ , where spectator quark counting rules and Carlitz-Kaur type models predict different behavior for down quark polarizations. The article examines the possibility of testing the ratio $\Delta d_V(x)/d_V(x)$ at $x\to 1$ in the inclusive production of $W^{-}$ -bosons.

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polarized valence quark distributions W-boson production spectator quark counting rules Carlitz-Kaur model down quark polarization large x

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9503419,
  title  = {Probing polarized valence quark distributions in $W^{-}$-boson production},
  author = {Pavel M. Nadolsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9503419},
  year   = {2008}
}

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LaTeX file, 9 pages, 2 figures inserted using EPSF.STY; in the final version of the preprint a reference to the earlier papers is added and small corrections to the text are made

Probing polarized valence quark distributions in $W^{-}$-boson production

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