Extracting W Single Spin Asymmetry in Longitudinally Polarized pp Collisions at PHENIX forward arms

The parity-violating longitudinal single spin asymmetry $A_L$ in the production of $W$ bosons in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV is sensitive to the polarization of light quarks and anti-quarks in the proton. However, identifying the muons from the decay of the $W$ is challenging due to a great background of hadronic processes and other muon producing processes. In the forward and backward hemispheres of PHENIX at RHIC, the muon spectrometers have been recently upgraded in order to provide additional trigger and tracking information to suppress those backgrounds. One of those upgrades is the Forward Vertex (FVTX) detector, a silicon-strip tracker. In 2013, PHENIX collected approximately 240 pb$^{-1}$ of polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV with a beam polarization of 56$\%$. The ability of the FVTX to improve the $W$ signal will be reviewed, over view of the analysis techniques used to extract the signal from the data in RHIC 2013 run will be discussed.