Measurement of the charge asymmetry of electrons from the decays of W bosons produced in p p ¯ collisions at s =1.96 TeV MEASUREMENT of the CHARGE ASYMMETRY of ELECTRONS ... T. AALTONEN et al.

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Abstract

At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton (pp¯) collider, high-mass electron-neutrino (eν) pairs are produced predominantly in the process pp¯→W(→eν)+X. The asymmetry of the electron and positron yield as a function of their pseudorapidity constrain the slope of the ratio of the u- to d-quark parton distributions versus the fraction of the proton momentum carried by the quarks. This paper reports on the measurement of the electron-charge asymmetry using the full data set recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab in 2001-2011 and corresponding to 9.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The measurement significantly improves the precision of the Tevatron constraints on the parton-distribution functions of the proton. Numerical tables of the measurement are provided.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number092002
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume104
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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