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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5754–5759 (1998)

Measurement of the Lepton Charge Asymmetry in W-Boson Decays Produced in pp̅ Collisions

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F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
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Received 2 September 1998; published in the issue dated 28 December 1998

We describe a measurement of the charge asymmetry of leptons from W-boson decays in the rapidity range 0<|yl|<2.5 using Weν,μν events from 110±7pb-1 of data collected by the CDF detector during 1992–1995. The asymmetry data constrain the ratio of d and u quark momentum distributions in the proton over the x range of 0.006 to 0.34 at Q2MW2. The asymmetry predictions that use parton distribution functions obtained from previously published CDF data in the central rapidity region ( 0.0<|yl|<1.1) do not agree with the new data in the large rapidity region ( |yl|>1.1).

© 1998 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5754
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5754
PACS:
13.85.Qk, 13.38.Be, 14.70.Fm