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The STAR W Program at RHIC

Nuclear Experiment 2022-03-02 v1

Abstract

The production of WW bosons in polarized p+pp+p collisions at RHIC provides an excellent tool to probe the proton's sea quark distributions. At leading order W(+)W^{-(+)} bosons are produced in uˉ+d(dˉ+u)\bar{u}+d\,(\bar{d}+u) collisions, and parity-violating single-spin asymmetries measured in longitudinally polarized p+pp+p collisions give access to the flavor-separated light quark and antiquark helicity distributions. In this proceedings we report preliminary results for the single-spin asymmetry, ALA_L from data collected in 2012 by the STAR experiment at RHIC with an integrated luminosity of 72 pb1^{-1} at s=510\sqrt{s}=510 GeV and an average beam polarization of 56%.

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@article{arxiv.1302.6639,
  title  = {The STAR W Program at RHIC},
  author = {Justin R. Stevens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6639},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (QCD-N' 2012)

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