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Charge Asymmetry in 𝑊-Boson Decays Produced in 𝑝⁢¯𝑝 Collisions at √𝑠 =1.8 TeV

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
CollaboratorsProduit, Nicolasorcid
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 74, no. 6, p. 850-854
Publication date1995
First online date1995-02-06
Abstract

The charge asymmetry has been measured using $19,039W$ decays recorded by the CDF detector during the 1992-93 run of the Tevatron Collider. The asymmetry is sensitive to the ratio of $d$ and $u$ quark distributions to $x<0.01$ at $Q~2 \approx M_W~2$, where nonperturbative effects are minimal. It is found that of the two current sets of parton distributions, those of Martin, Roberts and Stirling (MRS) are favored over the sets most recently produced by the CTEQ collaboration. The $W$ asymmetry data provide a stronger constraints on $d/u$ ratio than the recent measurements of $F_2~{\mu n}/F_2~{\mu p}$ which are limited by uncertainties originating from deutron corrections.

Keywords
  • Anti-p p: colliding beams
  • Colliding beams: anti-p p
  • Anti-p p: inclusive reaction
  • W: hadroproduction
  • Hadroproduction: W
  • W: width
  • W: leptonic decay
  • Leptonic decay: W
  • Charge: asymmetry
  • Rapidity dependence
  • Quark: momentum spectrum
  • Up
  • Down
  • CDF
  • Experimental results
  • Batavia TEVATRON Coll
  • 1800 GeV-cms
Affiliation entities Not a UNIGE publication
Citation (ISO format)
CDF Collaboration. Charge Asymmetry in 𝑊-Boson Decays Produced in 𝑝⁢¯𝑝 Collisions at √𝑠 =1.8 TeV. In: Physical review letters, 1995, vol. 74, n° 6, p. 850–854. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.74.850
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.850
Journal ISSN0031-9007
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