PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS FROM W+/- AND Z-PRODUCTION IN POLARIZED PP AND PN COLLISIONS AT RHIC

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BOURRELY, C
SOFFER, J
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[1] Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS-Luminy, F-13288 Marseille Cedex
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巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(94)90137-6
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We study the production of W +/- and Z gauge bosons in proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions up to a center-of-mass energy square-root s = 0.5 TeV, in connection with the realistic possibility of having proton-deuteron collisions at RHIC with a high luminosity. We stress the importance of measuring unpolarized cross sections for a better determination of the flavor asymmetry of the quarks. Since polarized proton beams will be available at RHIC, we evaluate several spin-dependent observables, like double helicity asymmetries A(LL) as a test of the sea quark polarization, double transverse spin asymmetries A(TT) as a practical way to determine a new structure function, the nucleon transversity distribution h1(x), and parity-violating asymmetries A(L) as a further test of our present knowledge of polarized parton distributions.
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