Abstract
We investigate the role of the flavor asymmetry of the nucleon's polarized antiquark distributions in Drell-Yan lepton pair production in polarized nucleon-nucleon collisions at HERA (fixed-target) and RHIC energies. It is shown that the large polarized antiquark flavor asymmetry predicted by model calculations in the large-Nc limit (chiral quark-soliton model) has a dramatic effect on the double spin asymmetries in high mass lepton pair production, as well as on the single spin asymmetries in lepton pair production through W±-bosons at M2 = M2w.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 719-722 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | European Physical Journal C |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2001 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)