Abstract
We study the production of W ± and Z gauge bosons in proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions up to a center-of-mass energy √ s = 0.5 TeV, in connection with the realistic possibility of having proton-deuteron collisions at RHIC with a high luminosity. We stress the importance of measuring unpolarized cross sections for a better determination of the flavor asymmetry of the quarks. Since polarized proton beams will be available at RHIC, we evaluate several spin-dependent observables, like double helicity asymmetries A LL as a test of the sea quark polarization, double transverse spin asymmetries A LL as a practical way to determine a new structure function, the nucleon transversity distribution h 1( x), and parity-violating asymmetries A L as a further test of our present knowledge of polarized parton distributions.
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