Diffractive asymmetry of electroweak vector bosons 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.

Comments: Nov.2009.3pp To appear in the proceedings of European Physical Society Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2009, July 16-22, Krakow, Poland