Probing polarized valence quark distributions in $W^{-}$-boson production

Abstract

While EMC-SMC-E142 data sheds new light on the behavior of polarized parton distributions at small and intermediate $x$, it may be also interesting to study valence quark polarizations at large $x$, where spectator quark counting rules and Carlitz-Kaur type models predict different behavior for down quark polarizations. The article examines the possibility of testing the ratio $\Delta d_V(x)/d_V(x)$ at $x\to 1$ in the inclusive production of $W^{-}$-bosons.