The enhanced PHENIX dimuon system is ideal for detection of the decay branch over a large range (Fig. 10) with an integrated acceptance of . There are no processes likely to contribute any significant background. ISAJET calculations at give , yielding events with .
Figure 10: Acceptance versus for .
Bourrely and Soffer[27] emphasize the application of production to the determination of the transversity structure function. The much larger values of x and would make this process complementary to transversity or helicity measurements in DY production.
Electroweak interference effects are maximized at the mass of the , leading to the possibility of precise tests of QCD corrections to the elementary production mechanism. For example interference between photon and exchange modifies the angular distribution characteristic of the DY process. Near the mass one has, . The charge asymmetry term, , has been measured in unpolarized collisions at the Tevatron Collider by CDF[30]. We are currently examining the implications of this term for polarized proton collisions.