Speaker
Dr
Stephen Pate
(New Mexico State University)
Description
The flavor-separated polarized parton distribution functions for light quarks and anti-quarks in the proton can be studied in the production of W bosons in p+p collisions. The Ws are produced in processes like $u+\bar{d}\rightarrow W^+$ and $\bar{u}+\d \rightarrow W^-$ and we observe
the lepton (an electron or muon) from the decay channel $W^{+\-}\rightarrow l^{+\-}\nu$. The electron energy spectrum from W decays measured with an integrated luminosity of approximately 10 pb^-1 will be shown, with a measurement of the electron single spin asymmetry in central rapidity.
Primary author
Dr
Stephen Pate
(New Mexico State University)
