Download or read book The Charge Asymmetry in W Bosons Produced in P$\bar{p}$ Collisions at {u221A}s written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary mode of production of W+ bosons in a p$ar{p}$ collider is u + $ar{d}$ → W+. The u quark generally carries more momentum than the $ar{d}$ and the resultant W+ tends to be boosted in the proton direction. Similarly, W bosons are boosted in the anti-proton direction. This is observed as an asymmetry in the rapidity distributions of positive and negative W bosons. Measurement of this asymmetry serves as a probe of the momentum distribution of partons within the proton. These distributions are required as input to the calculation of every p$ar{p}$ production cross section. This thesis presents the first measurement at D0 of the charge asymmetry of the W boson production cross section as measured in W → ev decays in 0.3 fb-1 of p$ar{p}$ collisions collected with the D0 Detector. Theoretical predictions made using the CTEQ6.1M and MRST(2004) parton distribution functions are compared with the measurement.