Hadronic $W$ production and the Gottfried Sum Rule

Details Hadronic $W$ production and the Gottfried Sum Rule Hadronic $W$ production and the Gottfried Sum Rule

1993-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9306302v1

Phys.Rev.D49:3261-3269,1994

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

19 pages (20 figures available from the authors), MAD/PH/744

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.49.3261

The difference in production rate between $W^+$ and $W^-$ at hadron colliders is very sensitive to the the difference between up- and down-quark distributions in the proton. This sensitivity allows for a variety of useful measurements. We consider the difference $d_s(x,Q^2) - u_s(x,Q^2)$ in the sea distributions and the difference $\Delta u(x,Q^2) - \Delta d(x,Q^2)$ in the polarized parton distribution functions. In both cases we construct an asymmetry to reduce systematic uncertainties. Although we discuss measurements at the Tevatron and future hadron colliders, we find that the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is the most appropriate hadron collider for these measurements.

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