The exchange of W bosons in electron-proton and positron-proton scattering
provides a valuable probe of the quark flavor content of the proton. The
inclusion of HERA data has had a major impact on global parton distribution
function (PDF) extractions, and the inclusion of jet data from ZEUS in
particular has been shown to significantly reduce the experimental
uncertainty of the gluon PDF. Recent measurements by the ZEUS Collaboration
of jet production in charged current deep inelastic scattering and
comparisons to theory will be presented which utilize 0.36 fb-1 of data at a
center-of-mass energy of 318 GeV. The potential benefit for future global
PDF fits will be discussed.
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