Diffractive asymmetry of electroweak vector bosons at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates diffractive electroweak vector boson production at the LHC, proposing that measuring W boson asymmetry in diffractive events can test the flavor symmetry of pomeron parton distributions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to test flavor symmetry in pomeron parton distributions through W boson asymmetry measurements in diffractive proton-proton collisions.

Findings

W boson production asymmetry can probe pomeron flavor symmetry

Diffractive W production provides a new test for pomeron models

Potential to improve understanding of diffractive processes at the LHC

Abstract

We analyse diffractive weak boson production in $pp$ collisions. We show that the measurement of $W$ boson production asymmetry in the diffractive $pp$ collisions is a valuable method to test the concept of the flavour symmetric pomeron parton distributions.