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Resummation for single-spin asymmetries in W boson production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

To measure spin-dependent parton distribution functions in the production of W bosons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, an accurate model for distributions of charged leptons from the W boson decay is needed. We present single-spin lepton-level cross sections of order αS\alpha_S for this process, as well as resummed cross sections, which include multiple parton radiation effects. We also present a program RhicBos for the numerical analysis of single-spin and double-spin cross sections in the Drell-Yan process, W and Z boson production.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210190,
  title  = {Resummation for single-spin asymmetries in W boson production},
  author = {P. M. Nadolsky and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210190},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; Contribution to the Proceedings of 15th International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN 2002), Brookhaven National Laboratory, September 9-14, 2002