QCD-WEAK INTERFERENCE AND PREDICTIONS FOR VECTOR BOSON SIGNALS IN HADRONIC JET CROSS-SECTIONS IN POLARIZED AND UNPOLARIZED PP AND P-BARP COLLISIONS

We study the implications of QCD-weak interference terms on vector boson peaks in two-jet and single-jet cross sections and spin asymmetries in unpolarized and polarized pp and pp collisions at collider energies. It is found that the interference terms strongly influence the cross section: The vector boson peaks in the pp cross sections and parity-violating asymmetries disappear below the interference terms at lower energies. In pp collisions, however, the vector boson peaks survive and measurements of parity-violating spin asymmetries in double- and single-jet cross sections should lead to clear and detectable signals for the vector bosons. © 1979.