The production of W± bosons in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at RHIC provides a direct probe for the spin-flavor structure of the proton through the parity-violating single-spin asymmetry, AL. At STAR, the leptonic decay channel W→eν can be measured with the electromagnetic calorimeters and time projection chamber. STAR has previously measured AL as a function of the decay electron and decay positron pseudorapidities from datasets taken in 2011 and 2012. This has provided significant constraints on the ˉu and ˉd quark helicity distributions.
In 2013 the STAR experiment collected an integrated luminosity of ∼300 pb−1 at √s=510 GeV with an average beam polarization of ∼56\%, which is more than three times larger than the total integrated luminosity of previous years. The new preliminary results of the W AL analysis for the dataset collected in 2013 are reported.
