W-boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD

We perform a study of W-boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. This calculation is required to extend the extraction of polarized parton distribution functions to NNLO accuracy. We present differential distributions at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Radja Boughezal, Hai Tao Li, Frank Petriello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269321002732