Anticipating the intermediate boson

The cross sections for the production of W/sup +-/ and W/sup 0/ in the high energy pp and anti pp collisions and distributions of their decay products are calculated. The W productions are abundant (sigma/sub W/ approximately 10/sup -33/ cm/sup 2/) for s/m/sup 2//sub W/ greater than or equal to 10. The distributions of leptons from the W decay have pronounced peak structures. Sucn structures stand well above background and do not get smeared away by the transverse motion of the W, estimated from a reasonable extrapolation of the present knowledge. Thus, they provide a clear signature for the W. Due to the well understood maximal-parity-violation effect in weak interactions mediated by W/sup +-/, the Drell-Yan model predicts that the W/sup +-/ will be produced polarized and their leptonic decay products will have very interesting characteristics. It is foreseeable that the still uncertain parity-violation property of the W/sup 0/ can be determined in such experiments. The detectability of the hadronic jets from the W's depends crucially on the background from strong interactions.