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Aug 16 – 21, 2019
Guilin Bravo Hotel, Guilin, China
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Measurement of Longitudinal Spin Asymmetries for Weak Boson Production at STAR

Aug 18, 2019, 4:40 PM
20m
Guihu Room (Guilin Bravo Hotel, Guilin, China)

Guihu Room

Guilin Bravo Hotel, Guilin, China

14 South Ronghu Road, Xiangshan, Guilin 541002, Guangxi, China
Parallel Session 6: QCD and hadron structure Session 6: QCD and hadron structure

Speaker

Jinlong Zhang (Stony Brook University)

Description

The production of $W^\pm$ bosons in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC provides a direct probe for the spin-flavor structure of the proton through the parity-violating single-spin asymmetry, $A_L$. At STAR, the leptonic decay channel $W \to e\nu$ can be effectively measured with the electromagnetic calorimeters and time projection chamber. STAR has measured the $A_L(W)$ as a function of the decay-electron's pseudorapidity from datasets taken in 2011 and 2012, which has provided significant constraints on the helicity-dependent PDFs of $\bar{u}$ and $\bar{d}$ quarks. In 2013 the STAR experiment collected an integrated luminosity of $\sim$250 pb$^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=510$ GeV with an average beam polarization of $\sim$56\%, which is more than three times larger than the total integrated luminosity of previous years. The final results from 2013 dataset for $W$-boson $A_L$ as well as for $Z$-boson $A_L$ and $W$-boson double-spin asymmetry $A_{LL}$ will be reported. Also the impacts of STAR data on our knowledge of the sea-quark spin-flavor structure of the proton will be discussed.

Primary author

Jinlong Zhang (Stony Brook University)

Presentation materials