22–29 Jul 2015
Europe/Vienna timezone

Measurements of $W$ charge asymmetry

23 Jul 2015, 09:25
18m
HS31

HS31

talk Top and Electroweak Physics Top and Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Jenny Lyn Holzbauer (Mississippi University (US))

Description

We present $W$ boson and lepton charge asymmetry measurements from $W$ decays in the electron channel, with 9.7 fb$^{-1}$ of RunII data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The electron charge asymmetry is presented as a function of the electron transverse momentum and pseudo-rapidity out to $|\eta|\leq 3.2$; we also give the $W$ charge asymmetry as a function of $W$ boson rapidity. The asymmetries are compared with next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. These charge asymmetry measurements will allow more accurate determinations of the proton parton distribution functions.

Primary authors

Bob.Hirosky DZERO.PHYSICS.COORDINATOR (DZero Experiment, Fermilab) Boris.Tuchming DZERO.PHYSICS.COORDINATOR (DZero Experiment, Fermilab)

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