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3. Magnetar spin-down glitch clearing the way for FRB-like bursts and a pulsed radio episode

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G. Younes, M. G. Baring, A. K. Harding, T. Enoto, Z. Wadiasingh, A. B. Pearlman, W. C. G. Ho, S. Guillot, Z. Arzoumanian, A. Borghese, K. Gendreau, E. Göğüş, T. Güver, A. J. van der Horst, C.-P. Hu, G. K. Jaisawal, C. Kouveliotou, L. Lin, and W. A. Majid

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic fields. Many attributes of magnetars remain poorly understood: spin-down glitches or the sudden reductions in the star's angular momentum, radio bursts reminiscent of extra-galactic Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and transient pulsed radio emission lasting months to years. Here we unveil the detection of a large spin-down glitch event ($|\Delta\nu/\nu| = 5.8_{-1.6}^{+2.6}\times10^{-6}$) from the magnetar SGR~1935+2154 on 2020 October 5 (+/- 1 day). We find no change to the source persistent surface thermal or magnetospheric X-ray behavior, nor is there evidence of strong X-ray bursting activity. Yet, in the subsequent days, the magnetar emitted three FRB-like radio bursts followed by a month long episode of pulsed radio emission. Given the rarity of spin-down glitches and radio signals from magnetars, their approximate synchronicity suggests an association, providing pivotal clues to their origin and triggering mechanisms, with ramifications to the broader magnetar and FRB populations. We postulate that impulsive crustal plasma shedding close to the magnetic pole generates a wind that combs out magnetic field lines, rapidly reducing the star's angular momentum, while temporarily altering the magnetospheric field geometry to permit the pair creation needed to precipitate radio emission., Comment: 51 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Nature Astronomy

Published
2022
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4. MOOCs phenomenon and role in STEM-related education and EFA movement

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H. E. Putri, N. W. A. Majid, T. Sumiyati, and A. P. Prasetio

Subjects
History, Movement (music), Phenomenon, Sociology, Computer Science Applications, Education, Cognitive psychology
Abstract

Education is a major aspect of national development. Quality education is a component of the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of the improvements in the aspect of quality education is the equal distribution of education through the Education for All (EFA) movement. Good infrastructure must support this motion, particularly the application of technology in teaching. Education is part of the educational equity system because most individuals are acquainted with technology, particularly smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are one of the e-learning models that evolve in a huge community and can be accessed by everyone. The EFA movement can be carried out well through MOOCs, although there are still multiple types of barriers encountered. The present article was a systematic review of the literature with the goal of defining relevant elements of the application of the trend of MOOCs to STEM-related learning. The methodological process was a systematic search of an article that identified, selected, evaluated and analyzed the texts relating to the object of the study.

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2020
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D.K. Ghodgaonkar, Hashem Al-Mattarneh, and Wan Mahmood B. W. A. Majid

Subjects
Water–cement ratio, Materials science, Moisture, business.industry, Dielectric, Waveguide (optics), Surfaces, Coatings and Films, law.invention, Portland cement, law, Nondestructive testing, Forensic engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Composite material, business, Water content, Microwave
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The existence of moisture in concrete is a major cause of damage to the concrete structure, so there is an increasing need for nondestructive detection and monitoring of moisture content in concrete. Microwave nondestructive testing (MNDT) techniques have advantages over other NDT methods (such as radiography, ultrasonic, and eddy current) regarding low cost, good penetration in nonmetallic materials, good resolution and requirement of only one face of material for testing. In this paper, microwave open-ended rectangular waveguide was used to measure the electromagnetic properties of Portland cement concrete (PCC) over a frequency range of 7.0 to 13.0 GHz. PCC specimens of six different water cement ratio (w/c) were prepared. PCC dielectric properties were evaluated at different moisture content ranges from saturated to oven dry. The results show reflection coefficients, dielectric constants and loss factors increase with increasing moisture content of PCC. At the same values of moisture content, the reflection coefficients, dielectric constants and loss factors of PCC increase with decreasing w/c ratio. The measured values of reflection coefficients, dielectric constants and loss factors can be used to determine the moisture content of PCC.

Published
2001
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6. Development of Flood Forecasting Using Statistical Method in Four River Basins in Terengganu, Malaysia

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Lariyah Mohd Sidek, M. H. Kamaluddin, Sazali Osman, Abdul Hafiz Mohammad, M. M.M. Husni, Hidayah Basri, Mohd Noor, W. H.A.W.A. Majid, and Aminah Shakirah Jaafar

Subjects
Hydrology, East coast, Geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Flood myth, High intensity, Flood forecasting, Drainage basin, Stage (hydrology), Monsoon, Residual
Abstract

One of the critical regions in Malaysia is Terengganu which is located at east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In Terengganu, flood is experienced regularly because of attributed topography and climate including northeast monsoon. Moreover, rainfall is with high intensity during the November to February in Terengganu as forcing factor to produce of flood. In this study, main objectives are water stage forecasting and deriving the related equations based on least squared method. For this study, it is used two methods which called inclusion of residual (Method A) and non-inclusion residual (Method B) respectively. Result depicts that Method B outperformed to forecast the water stage at selected case studies (Besut, Dungun, Kemaman, Terengganu).

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2016
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7. Hydrology Analysis and Modelling for Klang River Basin Flood Hazard Map

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Nurul Elyeena Binti Rostam, B. Hidayah, Lariyah Mohd Sidek, Radin Diana R. Ahmad, M.N. Ahmad, W. H.A.W.A. Majid, Z. A. Roseli, Nur Zaida Zahari, and S.H.M. Salleh

Subjects
Hydrology, Environmental hazard, geography, Hydrology (agriculture), geography.geographical_feature_category, Flood myth, Urbanization, Flooding (psychology), Drainage basin, Climate change, Surface runoff
Abstract

Flooding, a common environmental hazard worldwide has in recent times, increased as a result of climate change and urbanization with the effects felt more in developing countries. As a result, the explosive of flooding to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) substation is increased rapidly due to existing substations are located in flood prone area. By understanding the impact of flood to their substation, TNB has provided the non-structure mitigation with the integration of Flood Hazard Map with their substation. Hydrology analysis is the important part in providing runoff as the input for the hydraulic part.

Published
2016
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8. Remote observing with NASA's Deep Space Network

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J. R. Rizzo, Thomas B. H. Kuiper, C. Garcia-Miro, S. Martinez, and W. A. Majid

Subjects
Solar System, Instrument control, Spacecraft, business.industry, Computer science, Real-time computing, NASA Deep Space Network, Tunneling protocol, Interstellar medium, Upload, Default gateway, Instrumentation (computer programming), business, Telecommunications, Interplanetary spaceflight, Virtual network, Host (network), Radio astronomy
Abstract

The Deep Space Network (DSN) communicates with spacecraft as far away as the boundary between the Solar System and the interstellar medium. To make this possible, large sensitive antennas at Canberra, Australia, Goldstone, California, and Madrid, Spain, provide for constant communication with interplanetary missions. We describe the procedures for radioastronomical observations using this network. Remote access to science monitor and control computers by authorized observers is provided by two-factor authentication through a gateway at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. To make such observations practical, we have devised schemes based on SSH tunnels and distributed computing. At the very minimum, one can use SSH tunnels and VNC (Virtual Network Computing, a remote desktop software suite) to control the science hosts within the DSN Flight Operations network. In this way we have controlled up to three telescopes simultaneously. However, X-window updates can be slow and there are issues involving incompatible screen sizes and multi-screen displays. Consequently, we are now developing SSH tunnel-based schemes in which instrument control and monitoring, and intense data processing, are done on-site by the remote DSN hosts while data manipulation and graphical display are done at the observer's host. We describe our approaches to various challenges, our experience with what worked well and lessons learned, and directions for future development. © (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Published
2012
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9. Measurement ofαsfrom energy-energy correlations at theZ0resonance

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G. Baranko, S. L. White, E. Church, T. Junk, S. Hedges, R. S. Panvini, A. W. Weidemann, R. J. Belcinski, W. J. Wisniewski, R.J. Plano, L.S. Rochester, Y. Iwasaki, T. L. Usher, H. Park, S. J. Yellin, N.M. Krishna, R. Prepost, P.F. Jacques, M. Kowitt, Piero Giorgio Verdini, M. Pauluzzi, J. D. Richman, Giancarlo Mantovani, J. Va’vra, H. Hwang, D. G. Hitlin, D. J. Sherden, T. Nagamine, Nicola Bacchetta, D. O. Caldwell, R. S. Kofler, D. W. G. S. Leith, Koya Abe, G. Eigen, A. D'Oliverira, P. Coyle, E. Torrance, Roberto Battiston, C. Baltay, A. S. Johnson, H. Masuda, P. C. Rowson, Philip Burrows, H. Yuta, J. M. Yamartino, W. A. Majid, Stephen Watts, J. A. Coller, Shiro Suzuki, T. Hansl-Kozanecka, M. Nussbaum, G. Mueller, J. Carr, S. Smith, Wit Busza, K. T. Pitts, Melody A. Swartz, P. Saez, R. Steiner, G. Blaylock, S. Gonzalez, J.P. Venuti, B. Camanzi, Hyun-Chul Kim, J. A. Snyder, D. J. Mellor, G. Mancinelli, P. M. Mockett, M. Langston, A. Lu, M. H. Kelsey, I. Stockdale, O. Bardon, Maurizio Biasini, D. L. Burke, C.J.S. Damerell, R. J. Wilson, Michael S. Witherell, S. Kaiser, Michael J. Fero, J. Ma, G. Agnew, B. Meadows, R. Cotton, X. Liu, W. M. Bugg, S. S. Hertzbach, V. Cook, R. de Sangro, Joseph Izen, K. Furuno, M. Carpinelli, G. H. Zapalac, Yukio Hasegawa, K.C. Moffeit, U. Schneekloth, I. Karliner, M. G. Strauss, Dominik Müller, L. Servoli, T. Maruyama, J.I. Friedman, A. Seiden, M. Cavalli-Sforza, G. Hallewell, Henry W. Kendall, G. B. Word, Elliot Hughes, F. Suekane, S. L. Shapiro, J. Wyss, C. C. Young, U. Nauenberg, G. M. Bilei, G. R. Bower, L. Chen, D. G. Coyne, T. H. Burnett, James Shank, Amitabh Lath, A. Gillman, J. J. Thaler, R. Claus, R. K. Yamamoto, B. I. Eisenstein, C. Zeitlin, M. H. Shaevitz, Andrea Castro, A. K. Honma, R.D. Elia, M. D. Hildreth, G. E. Gladding, O. H. Saxton, T. Bolton, R. H. Schindler, Sridhara Dasu, Roberto Dell'Orso, H. R. Band, A. Szumilo, L. Piemontese, Gilbert Shapiro, Thomas W. Markiewicz, J. Rothberg, I. Abt, Alberto Benvenuti, M. Kalelkar, R. Verdier, W. W. Ash, Enrico Pieroni, E. L. Hart, H. Kawahara, Fred Wickens, R. Kroeger, J. E. Brau, P. Zucchelli, Dario Bisello, J. F. Labs, S. Willocq, A. Calcaterra, A. O. Bazarko, T. Schalk, J. F. McGowan, T. W. Reeves, H. L. Lynch, H. M. Steiner, C. Vannini, S. H. Williams, N. Toge, D.C. Schultz, T. Bienz, A. Sugiyama, P. De Simone, M.D. Sokoloff, R. King, J. J. Russell, Y. C. Du, J. A. Lauber, W. Dunwoodie, L.S. Osborne, M. Loreti, J. A. Jaros, John Scott Whitaker, J. Quigley, D. Aston, R. A. Johnson, A. Santocchia, T. Takahashi, L. Rosenson, F. E. Taylor, D. Calloway, Stephen Robert Wagner, B. N. Ratcliff, C. Simopoulos, M.E. Huffer, J. R. Bogart, P. E. Stamer, C. Fan, T.J. Pavel, R. Frey, S. De Simone, F. Perrier, G. B. Chadwick, J. R. Johnson, R. Kajikawa, P. D. Acton, P. C. Kim, I. M. Peruzzi, R. E. Cassell, P.E. Rensing, R. Cowan, A. Bean, Yeong-Dae Kwon, A. P. Waite, K.G. Baird, B. Mours, David A. Williams, A. K. McKemey, B. A. Schumm, J. D. Turk, S. Manly, H. A. Neal, Richard Dubois, Michele Gallinaro, R. W. Zdarko, M.E. King, R. Messner, E. Vella, J. Huber, M. Petradza, M. Turcotte, R. Ben-David, J. Zhou, M. Woods, Rino Castaldi, H. O. Cohn, G. D. Punkar, M. Tecchio, R. J. Morrison, L. Pescara, D. C. Williams, Martin Breidenbach, C. Y. Prescott, D. Su, E. Mazzuícato, M. Piccolo, and K. Hasegawa

Subjects
Coupling constant, Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, Statistics::Theory, Particle physics, Statistics::Applications, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Electron–positron annihilation, Hadron, General Physics and Astronomy, Elementary particle, Coupling (probability), 01 natural sciences, Standard Model, Nuclear physics, Particle decay, 0103 physical sciences, Order (group theory), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Perturbation theory, 010306 general physics, Energy (signal processing), Boson
Abstract

We determine the strong coupling ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}$ from a comprehensive study of energy-energy correlations (EEC's) and their asymmetry (AEEC's) in hadronic decays of ${\mathit{Z}}^{0}$ bosons collected by the SLD experiment at SLAC. The data are compared with all four available predictions of QCD calculated up to O(${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}^{2}$) in perturbation theory, and also with a resummed calculation matched to all four of these calculations. We find large discrepancies between ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}$ values extracted from the different O(${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}^{2}$) calculations. We also find a large renormalization scale ambiguity in ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}$ determined from the EEC's using the O(${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}^{2}$) calculations; this ambiguity is reduced in the case of the AEEC's and is very small when the matched calculations are used. Averaging over all calculations, and over the EEC and AEEC results, we obtain ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}_{\mathit{s}}$(${\mathit{M}}_{\mathit{Z}}^{2}$)=0.${124}_{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}0.004}^{+0.003}$ (expt.) \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.009 (theory).

Published
1994
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10. Measurement of the charged multiplicity ofZ0→bb¯ events

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Amitabh Lath, M. Tecchio, L. Pescara, G. Muller, J. D. Turk, R. R. Kofler, Stephen Watts, J. Huber, M. Turcotte, Philip Burrows, Rino Castaldi, H. O. Cohn, G. D. Punkar, R. Prepost, S. McHugh, J. M. Yamartino, Roberto Battiston, J. Wyss, P. De Simone, B. Farhat, W. A. Majid, M. Langston, J. E. Brau, A. Calcaterra, M. Loreti, John Scott Whitaker, D. J. Mellor, P.Y.C. Du, H. A. Neal, E. Erdos, P.F. Jacques, P. C. Rowson, J. A. Coller, C. Zeitlin, O. Bardon, M.B. Barakat, H. Yuta, Michael S. Witherell, R.D. Elia, C. Fan, T.J. Pavel, R. Frey, Richard Dubois, S. De Simone, P. Saez, F. Perrier, G. E. Gladding, K. T. Pitts, L. Servoli, Melody A. Swartz, K.C. Moffeit, Joseph Izen, Elliot Hughes, S. H. Williams, T. W. Reeves, Koji Abe, A. Bean, N. Toge, G. M. Bilei, G. R. Bower, M. Kalelkar, J. R. Johnson, James Shank, R. Kajikawa, W. J. Wisniewski, Andrea Castro, A. Gillman, A. Lu, M. D. Hildreth, O. H. Saxton, J. A. Lauber, S. J. Yellin, P. Zucchelli, H. R. Band, L. Piemontese, S. Sen, Maurizio Biasini, B. Mours, N.M. Krishna, R. Shypit, D. J. Sherden, Fred Wickens, Enrico Pieroni, V. Cook, D. W. G. S. Leith, R. de Sangro, S. Manly, A. W. Weidemann, Thomas W. Markiewicz, T. Hansl-Kozanecka, R. Ben-David, J. Zhou, J. F. Labs, G. Hallewell, A. P. Waite, M. Woods, A. S. Johnson, A. Seiden, Sridhara Dasu, I. Stockdale, T. Bolton, C. Baltay, H. Masuda, D.C. Schultz, C. C. Young, J. Quigley, S. L. Shapiro, T. Takahashi, M. Zolotorev, R. Steiner, S. Gonzalez, S. Rousakov, B. N. Ratcliff, Gilbert Shapiro, A. K. Honma, D. Aston, B. A. Schumm, X. Liu, R. Verdier, E. L. Hart, Michele Gallinaro, R. W. Zdarko, C. Simopoulos, J. Duboscq, S. S. Hertzbach, Alberto Benvenuti, Roberto Dell'Orso, D. Calloway, Wit Busza, M.E. King, H. Kawahara, P. E. Stamer, G. H. Zapalac, S. Willocq, T. Maruyama, G. B. Word, Henry W. Kendall, C. Vannini, H. M. Steiner, R. King, Shiro Suzuki, R. S. Panvini, R. E. Cassell, P.E. Rensing, M. Carpinelli, J. Rothberg, I. Abt, K. Furuno, L. Rosenson, L. Chen, B. I. Eisentein, R. Cowan, Yukio Hasegawa, J. J. Thaler, R. Claus, R. K. Yamamoto, D. G. Coyne, S. Smith, Yeong-Dae Kwon, W. W. Ash, G. Blaylock, B. Camanzi, R. Cotton, S. Hedges, K.G. Baird, R. J. Belcinski, David A. Williams, A. K. McKemey, U. Schneekloth, F. Suekane, R. Messner, E. Vella, M. Petradza, H. L. Lynch, P. M. Mockett, I. Karliner, M. G. Strauss, Dominik Müller, R. H. Schindler, A. Szumilo, R. Kroeger, Hyun-Chul Kim, J. A. Snyder, M. H. Kelsey, G. Mancinelli, E. Church, T. Junk, M. Nussbaum, E. Torrence, R.J. Plano, A. O. Bazarko, Piero Giorgio Verdini, J. Ma, M. Pauluzzi, P. Coyle, L.S. Rochester, J. D. Richman, Y. Iwasaki, T. L. Usher, H. Park, Giancarlo Mantovani, H. Hwang, U. Nauenberg, D. G. Hitlin, Dario Bisello, I. M. Peruzzi, E. Mazzucato, J. Va’vra, J. Carr, D. L. Burke, W. M. Bugg, T. Nagamine, Nicola Bacchetta, D. O. Caldwell, T. Schalk, G. Baranko, D. C. Williams, S. L. White, A.B. d'Oliveira, T. Bienz, J. J. Russell, L.S. Osborne, R. A. Johnson, Martin Breidenbach, J.P. Venuti, C.J.S. Damerell, R. J. Wilson, C. Y. Prescott, D. Su, M. Piccolo, K. Hasegawa, J. F. McGowan, A. Sugiyama, F. E. Taylor, M.E. Huffer, J. R. Bogart, G. B. Chadwick, Michael J. Fero, J.I. Friedman, M. Cavalli-Sforza, B. T. Meadows, M. D. Sokoloff, M. H. Shaevitz, and T. H. Burnett

Subjects
Physics, Combinatorics, General Physics and Astronomy, Multiplicity (mathematics)
Abstract

Using an impact parameter tag to select an enriched sample of [ital Z][sup 0][r arrow][ital b[bar b]] events, we have measured the difference between the average charged multiplicity of [ital Z][sup 0][r arrow][ital b[bar b]] and [ital Z][sup 0][r arrow] hadrons to be [ital [bar n]][sub [ital b]][minus][ital [bar n]][sub had]=2.24[plus minus]0.30 ( stat )[plus minus]0.33 ( syst ) tracks per event. From this, we have derived [ital [bar n]][sub [ital b]][minus][ital [bar n]][sub [ital u][ital d][ital s]]=3.31[plus minus]0.41[plus minus]0.79. Comparing this measurement with those at lower center-of-mass energies, we find no evidence that [ital [bar n]][sub [ital b]][minus][ital [bar n]][sub [ital u][ital d][ital s]] depends on energy. This result is in agreement with a precise prediction of perturbative QCD, and supports the notion that QCD remains asymptotically free down to the scale [ital M][sub [ital b]][sup 2].

Published
1994
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11. First measurement of the left-right cross section asymmetry inZboson production bye+e−collisions

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J. Duboscq, Tadayuki Takahashi, S. Bethke, W. T. Emmet, R. Dolin, R. King, J. Hodgson, Sridhara Dasu, G.J. Tappern, S. A. Wickert, P. C. Rowson, R. J. Stephenson, R. Prepost, D. Pripstein, M. Tecchio, J. E. Brau, A. W. Weidemann, A. Yim, P.F. Jacques, T. Dean, T. H. Burnett, Amitabh Lath, H. Yuta, L. Piemontese, B. F. Wadsworth, Enrico Pieroni, E. Hyatt, L. Mathys, R. H. Schindler, A. Szumilo, G. Tarnopolsky, M. Settles, Roberto Battiston, R. Davis, A. Nuttall, T. A. Hodges, R. R. Kofler, D. Walz, A. V. Kulikov, R. Messner, J. F. Labs, J.P. Venuti, P. E.L. Clarke, A. Rothenberg, D. Mansour, R. Kroeger, D. Axen, A. Gioumousis, W. A. Majid, H. J. Hargis, C.J.S. Damerell, R. J. Wilson, D. J. Sherden, A. K. Honma, E. Vella, A. I. Mincer, S. H. Williams, A. O. Bazarko, D. D. Durrett, O. Chamberlain, J. A. Coller, E. L. Garwin, John Fox, N. Toge, D. Horelick, C. Baltay, M. D. Hildreth, F. Bird, C. Y. Prescott, D. W. G. S. Leith, P. Coyle, H. Cutler, C. J. Oram, H. Masuda, H. L. Lynch, R. Bell, J. Olsen, Nicholas Walker, J. Escalera, A.P.T. Palounek, Roberto Dell'Orso, L. P. Robertson, Melody A. Swartz, D. Su, D. Warner, R. R. Larsen, H. Petersen, J. Clendenin, A. Astbury, R. J. Morrison, G. A. Beer, D. R. Freytag, R. H. Siemann, Philip Burrows, T. Hansl-Kozanecka, S. McHugh, A. L. Shoup, R. E. Cassell, P.E. Rensing, T. Shimomura, M. Piccolo, M. J. Fox, J. Rothberg, D.C. Schultz, R. Langstaff, I. Abt, L. Pescara, I. Stockdale, G. Stewart, H. Shaw, P. De Simone, J. M. Yamartino, D. J. Mellor, M. Langston, O. Bardon, R.L. English, R. Watt, V. Cook, R. Cotton, M. Petradza, P. M. Mockett, V. Ashford, P. Saez, Michael S. Witherell, R. de Sangro, K. Skarpaas, R. C. Hilomen, T. Fieguth, Wit Busza, J. Flynn, D. Aston, G. Mancinelli, Patrick Krejcik, R. Rinta, T. W. Reeves, Rino Castaldi, H. O. Cohn, M. Loreti, V. Ziemann, K. Hasegawa, Richard Keeler, S. Kaiser, S. Hedges, J. L. Turner, G. Agnew, Joseph Izen, B. Burgess, L. Servoli, R. J. Belcinski, K. K. Young, John Scott Whitaker, X. Liu, Koji Abe, P. Kunz, S. S. Hertzbach, W. Craddock, G. Hallewell, I. Karliner, M. G. Strauss, Dominik Müller, J. Carr, D. Calloway, A. Lu, C. C. Young, B. I. Eisenstein, Elliot Hughes, T. Junk, M. Carpinelli, S. Bougerolle, G. D. Punkar, J. D. Turk, D. L. Burke, H. O. Ogren, R. W. Williams, W. M. Bugg, U. Schneekloth, S.C. Berridge, A. Disco, D. L. Hale, G. M. Bilei, G. R. Bower, James Shank, R. Cowan, Andrea Castro, Henry W. Kendall, L. Chen, R. K. Jobe, R. Ossa, Gunther Haller, O. H. Saxton, E. Rutz, C. Alber, T. Schalk, F. Toevs, J. J. Thaler, R. Claus, J. Fujimoto, D. P. Gurd, R. K. Yamamoto, P. Stiles, M. Minty, B. N. Ratcliff, S. Ecklund, D. Chambers, J. Wyss, C. Simopoulos, H. R. Band, J. A. Lauber, A. Santocchia, C. Yee, E. Erdos, P. Poffenberger, Yeong-Dae Kwon, G. Blaylock, D. A. Forbush, J. Huber, D. Kharakh, B. Camanzi, W. W. Ash, W. J. Wisniewski, F. Suekane, R.J. Plano, P. E. Stamer, M. Schneider, G. Eigen, M. Turcotte, M. D. Woodly, P. Zucchelli, G. Putallaz, M. J. Haney, A. Bean, C. G. Arroyo, B.L. Byers, W. Baker, W. L. Spence, S.R. Smith, Fred Wickens, A. P. Waite, J. T. Seeman, C. Zeitlin, T. Lyons, T. Bienz, N. Phinney, Martin Breidenbach, S. J. Yellin, L. Lintern, L. Paffrath, A. Calcaterra, K.G. Baird, R. Berger, C. Jako, N.M. Krishna, R.D. Elia, G. E. Gladding, S. Manly, I. M. Peruzzi, E. Mazzucato, R. Pitthan, Hyun-Chul Kim, J. J. Russell, Y. C. Du, W. Dunwoodie, David A. Williams, Y. Au, A. K. McKemey, R. F. Boyce, M. Zolotorev, J. A. Snyder, K. T. Pitts, L.S. Osborne, G. H. Zapalac, H. Tang, A. S. Johnson, M. Kalelkar, J. Frisch, R. S. Panvini, J. Hoeflich, T. Maruyama, B. A. Schumm, K.C. Moffeit, G. B. Word, G. E. Schultz, R. A. Johnson, R. Steiner, P. Antilogus, M. H. Kelsey, J. C. Sheppard, S. Gonzalez, M. Gaillard, A. Snyder, Thomas W. Markiewicz, S. L. Cartwright, K. Furuno, A. D. Yeremian, T. Gillman, V. Nesterov, H.J. Kang, Maurizio Biasini, T. Himel, Marc Ross, Yukio Hasegawa, H. A. Neal, Shiro Suzuki, D. F. Alzofon, Michele Gallinaro, D. Cords, M. Kowitt, A.K.S. Santha, R. W. Zdarko, D. G. Coyne, D. C. Williams, T. Bolton, C. Vannini, G. Oxoby, R. Shypit, Gilbert Shapiro, R. Verdier, E. L. Hart, D. Peters, A. Seiden, R. W. Downing, M. Z. Tahar, P. J. Emma, Alberto Benvenuti, H. Kawahara, C. Fan, T.J. Pavel, R. Frey, S. De Simone, F. Perrier, J. R. Johnson, R. Kajikawa, G. Mundy, V. Hamilton, P. D. Acton, P. C. Kim, H. M. Steiner, L. Rosenson, P. Schenk, K. M. Fortune, Richard Dubois, R. Ben-David, J. Zhou, M. Woods, J. Va’vra, M. Nordby, T. E. Browder, B. Mours, T. Nagamine, Nicola Bacchetta, D. McCormick, D. O. Caldwell, J. F. McGowan, G. Mazaheri, A. Sugiyama, M. Nussbaum, G. Mueller, Stephen Watts, F. Barrera, S. Jones, F. E. Taylor, M.E. Huffer, J. R. Bogart, J. Ferrie, R. Sobie, A. Mazzucato, Piero Giorgio Verdini, M. Pauluzzi, J. Ma, L. Camilleri, J. D. Richman, G. B. Chadwick, T. Weber, Giancarlo Mantovani, H. Hwang, Michael J. Fero, S.St. Lorant, J.I. Friedman, L.S. Rochester, Y. Iwasaki, T. L. Usher, M. Cavalli-Sforza, B. T. Meadows, D. G. Hitlin, F. J. Decker, M. D. Sokoloff, E.N. Spencer, H. Park, M. H. Shaevitz, G. Baranko, T. Limberg, D. R. Rust, G. R. Mason, S. L. White, D. Nelson, P. Raimondi, S. L. Shapiro, P. Rankin, A.B. d'Oliveira, U. Nauenberg, J. Harrison, Chris Adolphsen, R. Blumberg, F. Dejongh, Dario Bisello, and M. Klein

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Physics, Particle physics, Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, media_common.quotation_subject, General Physics and Astronomy, Elementary particle, Production (computer science), Beam polarization, Asymmetry, Energy (signal processing), media_common, Standard Model, Boson
Abstract

We present the first measurement of the left-right cross section asymmetry (${\mathit{A}}_{\mathit{L}\mathit{R}}$) for Z boson production by ${\mathit{e}}^{+}$${\mathit{e}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}}$ collisions. The measurement was performed at a center-of-mass energy of 91.55 GeV with the SLD detector at the SLAC Linear Collider which utilized a longitudinally polarized electron beam. The average beam polarization was (22.4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.6)%. Using a sample of 10 224 Z decays, we measure ${\mathit{A}}_{\mathit{L}\mathit{R}}$ to be 0.100\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.044(stat)\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.004(syst), which determines the effective weak mixing angle to be ${\mathrm{sin}}^{2}$${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\theta}}}_{\mathit{W}}^{\mathit{e}\mathit{f}\mathit{f}}$=0.2378 \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.0056(stat)\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.0005(syst).

Published
1993
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12. Discovery of 16.6 and 25.5 s Pulsations from the Small Magellanic Cloud

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D. J. Macomb, T. A. Prince, W. A. Majid, and R. C. Lamb

Subjects
Physics, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, ROSAT, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Small Magellanic Cloud, Astrophysics
Abstract

We report the serendipitous detection of two previously unreported pulsars from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, with periods of 16.6 and 25.5 seconds. The detections are based on archival PCA data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The observation leading to these detections occurred in September 2000 extending over 2.1 days with an exposure of 121 ks. A possible identification of the 16.6 s pulsar with an X-ray source RX J0051.8-7310 seen by both ROSAT and ASCA imaging X-ray satellites is presented., Comment: 9 pages with 3 figures. Submitted to ApJ Letters

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2001
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13. FIRST MEASUREMENT OF THE LEFT-RIGHT ASYMMETRY IN Z-BOSON PRODUCTION

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R. E. Cassell, P.E. Rensing, T. Dean, T. H. Burnett, D. Mansour, D. D. Durrett, Gian Mario Bilei, R. Prepost, D. Pripstein, P.F. Jacques, R. Cowan, T. Gillman, R. Cotton, John Fox, K.C. Moffeit, E. Hyatt, E. L. Garwin, G. Putallaz, M. G. Strauss, G. Zapalac, D. Sherden, P. Stamer, R. King, R. Pitthan, P. Poffenberger, R. S. Kroeger, U. Schneekloth, P. Saez, S.C. Berridge, L. Piemontese, V. Nesterov, S. L. Cartwright, J. D. Turk, J. Carr, F. Suekane, T. Schalk, R. J. Decker, Enrico Pieroni, G. Shapiro, R. Shypit, M. Cavalli-Sforza, Koya Abe, M. Woods, R. J. Stephenson, M. Klein, J. M. Yamartino, K.G. Baird, H.J. Kang, David A. Williams, Y. Au, S. Yellin, J. A. Lauber, A. Santocchia, L. S. Osborne, S. Hedges, A. V. Kulikov, D. L. Burke, B. Meadows, R. W. Williams, T. Maruyama, W. M. Bugg, W. Wisniewski, J. Duboscq, T. Himel, A. Rothenberg, A. Szumilo, G. Tarnopolsky, A. Nuttall, Roberto Battiston, R. J. Belcinski, W. Baker, D. Walz, F. Toevs, D. Aston, D. J. Mellor, G. Mancinelli, R. F. Boyce, M. Z. Tahar, D. Chambers, Michael S. Witherell, T. Limberg, A. K. McKemey, H. Tang, S. Bethke, R. Dolin, D. W. G. S. Leith, L. Servoli, M. J. Fero, K. K. Young, Robert Wilson, W. A. Majid, G. B. Word, M. Zolotorev, D. P. Gurd, P. J. Emma, C. C. Young, G. Baranko, Alberto Benvenuti, D. R. Rust, F. E. Taylor, H. Cutler, R. K. Jobe, S. L. White, J. R. Bogart, T. Hansl-Kozanecka, H. A. Neal, J. A. Coller, A. Disco, M. Swartz, V. Ashford, D. Kharakh, G. Eigen, R. Castaldi, G. E. Schultz, P. C. Rowson, H. Yuta, L. Mathys, T. Junk, S. Bougerolle, M. J. Haney, A. Bean, C. G. Arroyo, R.J. Plano, B.L. Byers, P. Stiles, M. Minty, D. A. Forbush, M. Schneider, N. Phinney, G. Blaylock, L. Lintern, H. J. Hargis, A. K. Honma, T. Bienz, J. Escalera, Y. C. Du, W. Dunwoodie, S. R. Smith, T. W. Reeves, P. Kunz, C. Alber, W. L. Spence, P. M. Mockett, S. A. Wickert, M. Biasini, J. T. Seeman, I. M. Peruzzi, E. Mazzucato, Abraham Seiden, W. T. Emmet, J. Hoeflich, C. Simopoulos, A. Lu, M. Gaillard, G. R. Mason, J. F. Labs, M. E. Huffer, S. L. Shapiro, Stephen Watts, K. T. Pitts, D. C. Williams, V. Cook, J. Hodgson, H. Kawahara, J. Frisch, A. D. Yeremian, J. Ferrie, R. Sobie, A. Mazzucato, R. Messner, A. I. Mincer, P. Raimondi, A. L. Shoup, A.B. d'Oliveira, J. Harrison, M. Petradza, R. Blumberg, F. Dejongh, H. O. Ogren, S. McHugh, J. Wyss, P. Rankin, M. Langston, O. Bardon, David O. Caldwell, U. Nauenberg, Chris Adolphsen, G. Agnew, W. Craddock, G. Oxoby, R. Steiner, S. Gonzalez, X. Liu, S. S. Hertzbach, J. S. Whitaker, R. A. Johnson, H. M. Steiner, L. Rosenson, T. E. Browder, G. B. Chadwick, Roberto Dell'Orso, L. P. Robertson, J. Huber, R. Ben-David, Y. Kwon, J. Zhou, Richard Keeler, R. Rinta, M.D. Sokoloff, J. Va'vra, R. de Sangro, S. Dasu, L. Paffrath, A. Yim, R. Davis, S.St. Lorant, M. Turcotte, P. Coyle, B. Mours, Y. Hasegawa, J.P. Venuti, P. E.L. Clarke, C.J.S. Damerell, Gunther Haller, O. H. Saxton, D. Horelick, A. O. Bazarko, Martin Breidenbach, G. R. Bower, James Shank, C. Yee, E. Erdos, J. E. Brau, A. Calcaterra, G. Hallewell, R. R. Larsen, I. Stockdale, I. Karliner, Dominik Müller, G. Stewart, D. Warner, J.I. Friedman, Andrea Castro, R. Ossa, F. Barrera, C. Zeitlin, B. F. Wadsworth, T. A. Hodges, K. Skarpaas, H. L. Lynch, J. Rothberg, R. Langstaff, I. Abt, C. Vannini, P. Schenk, K. M. Fortune, R. Kajikawa, R. C. Hilomen, P. N. Burrows, Dario Bisello, H. O. Cohn, R. S. Panvini, E. Vella, Fred Wickens, T. Lyons, R. R. Kofler, B. I. Eisenstein, S. Jones, H. Shaw, Michael H. Shaevitz, C. Y. Prescott, J. C. Sheppard, T. Takahashi, C. Fan, T.J. Pavel, E. W. Hughes, S. H. Williams, G. D. Punkar, N. Toge, Jeffrey Richman, R. Dubois, J. A. Snyder, M. Kalelkar, R. K. Yamamoto, R. Frey, O. Chamberlain, S. De Simone, M. Tecchio, A. Lath, B. N. Ratcliff, M. Loreti, R. Berger, V. Ziemann, Piero Giorgio Verdini, M. Pauluzzi, T. Weber, F. Perrier, T. Bolton, M. H. Kelsey, Y. Iwasaki, T. L. Usher, A. Astbury, Giancarlo Mantovani, A. Gioumousis, T. Shimomura, M. Piccolo, J. F. McGowan, E.N. Spencer, H. Park, G. Mazaheri, J. R. Johnson, P. Zucchelli, H. Hwang, H. R. Band, I. Camilleri, D. G. Hitlin, G. Mundy, A. P. Waite, H. Y. Kim, J. J. Russell, G. Gladding, V. Hamilton, P. D. Acton, P. C. Kim, A. W. Weidemann, R. J. Morrison, B. A. Schumm, R. Verdier, E. L. Hart, L. Pescara, K. Hasegawa, K. Furuno, G. A. Beer, H. Petersen, D. Peters, S. Manly, R. H. Siemann, M. Nordby, Patrick Krejcik, R. W. Downing, D. Nelson, C. J. Oram, R. Elia, Marc Ross, A. S. Johnson, D. F. Alzofon, Michele Gallinaro, R. W. Zdarko, P. Antilogus, R. Bell, A.P.T. Palounek, M. Nussbaum, G. Mueller, A. Snyder, D. G. Coyne, D. R. Freytag, Nicola Bacchetta, D. McCormick, M. J. Fox, M. Kowitt, Rafe Schindler, A.K.S. Santha, Thomas W. Markiewicz, L. S. Rochester, J. Ma, S. Kaiser, D. Axen, C. Baltay, H. Masuda, J. Olsen, Nicholas Walker, Joseph Izen, T. Fieguth, Wit Busza, J. L. Turner, M. Carpinelli, P. De Simone, L. Chen, D. L. Hale, J. J. Thaler, R. Claus, J. Fujimoto, S. Ecklund, C. Jako, N.M. Krishna, W. W. Ash, G.J. Tappern, S. Suzuki, Henry W. Kendall, D. Su, M. Settles, M. D. Hildreth, F. Bird, E. Rutz, D. Cords, B. Camanzi, M. D. Woodly, J. Clendenin, T. Nagamine, D.C. Schultz, R.L. English, R. Watt, A. Sugiyama, J. Flynn, B. Burgess, D. Calloway, Abe, K, Abt, I, Acton, P, Adolphsen, C, Agnew, G, Alber, C, Alzofon, D, Antilogus, P, Arroyo, C, Ash, W, Ashford, V, Astbury, A, Aston, D, Au, Y, Axen, D, Bacchetta, N, Baird, K, Baker, W, Baltay, C, Band, H, Baranko, G, Bardon, O, Barrera, F, Battiston, R, Bazarko, A, Bean, A, Beer, G, Belcinski, R, Bell, R, Bendavid, R, Benvenuti, A, Berger, R, Berridge, S, Bethke, S, Biasini, M, Bienz, T, Bilei, G, Bird, F, Bisello, D, Blaylock, G, Blumberg, R, Bogart, J, Bolton, T, Bougerolle, S, Bower, G, Boyce, R, Brau, J, Breidenbach, M, Browder, T, Bugg, W, Burgess, B, Burke, D, Burnett, T, Burrows, P, Busza, W, Byers, B, Calcaterra, A, Caldwell, D, Calloway, D, Camanzi, B, Camilleri, I, Carpinelli, M, Carr, J, Cartwright, S, Cassell, R, Castaldi, R, Castro, A, Cavallisforza, M, Chadwick, G, Chamberlain, O, Chambers, D, Chen, L, Clarke, P, Claus, R, Clendenin, J, Cohn, H, Coller, J, Cook, V, Cords, D, Cotton, R, Cowan, R, Coyle, P, Coyne, D, Craddock, W, Cutler, H, Doliveira, A, Damerell, C, Dasu, S, Davis, R, Desangro, R, Desimone, P, Desimone, S, Dean, T, Decker, R, Dejongh, F, Dellorso, R, Disco, A, Dolin, R, Downing, R, Du, Y, Dubois, R, Duboscq, J, Dunwoodie, W, Durrett, D, Ecklund, S, Eigen, G, Eisenstein, B, Elia, R, Emma, P, Emmet, W, English, R, Erdos, E, Escalera, J, Fan, C, Fero, M, Ferrie, J, Fieguth, T, Flynn, J, Forbush, D, Fortune, K, Fox, J, Fox, M, Frey, R, Freytag, D, Friedman, J, Frisch, J, Fujimoto, J, Furuno, K, Gaillard, M, Gallinaro, M, Garwin, E, Gillman, T, Gioumousis, A, Gladding, G, Gonzalez, S, Gurd, D, Hale, D, Haller, G, Hallewell, G, Hamilton, V, Haney, M, Hanslkozanecka, T, Hargis, H, Harrison, J, Hart, E, Hasegawa, K, Hasegawa, Y, Hedges, S, Hertzbach, S, Hildreth, M, Hilomen, R, Himel, T, Hitlin, D, Hodges, T, Hodgson, J, Hoeflich, J, Honma, A, Horelick, D, Huber, J, Huffer, M, Hughes, E, Hwang, H, Hyatt, E, Iwasaki, Y, Izen, J, Jobe, R, Jacques, P, Jako, C, Johnson, A, Johnson, J, Johnson, R, Jones, S, Junk, T, Kaiser, S, Kajikawa, R, Kalelkar, M, Kang, H, Karliner, I, Kawahara, H, Keeler, R, Kelsey, M, Kendall, H, Kharakh, D, Kim, H, Kim, P, King, R, Klein, M, Kofler, R, Kowitt, M, Krejcik, P, Krishna, N, Kroeger, R, Kulikov, A, Kunz, P, Kwon, Y, Labs, J, Langstaff, R, Langston, M, Larsen, R, Lath, A, Lauber, J, Leith, D, Limberg, T, Lintern, L, Liu, X, Loreti, M, Lu, A, Lynch, H, Lyons, T, Ma, J, Majid, W, Mancinelli, G, Manly, S, Mansour, D, Mantovani, G, Markiewicz, T, Maruyama, T, Mason, G, Masuda, H, Mathys, L, Mazaheri, G, Mazzucato, A, Mazzucato, E, Mccormick, D, Mcgowan, J, Mchugh, S, Mckemey, A, Meadows, B, Mellor, D, Messner, R, Mincer, A, Minty, M, Mockett, P, Moffeit, K, Morrison, R, Mours, B, Mueller, G, Muller, D, Mundy, G, Nagamine, T, Nauenberg, U, Neal, H, Nelson, D, Nesterov, V, Nordby, M, Nussbaum, M, Nuttall, A, Ogren, H, Olsen, J, Oram, C, Osborne, L, Ossa, R, Oxoby, G, Paffrath, L, Palounek, A, Panvini, R, Park, H, Pauluzzi, M, Pavel, T, Perrier, F, Peruzzi, I, Pescara, L, Peters, D, Petersen, H, Petradza, M, Phinney, N, Piccolo, M, Piemontese, L, Pieroni, E, Pitthan, R, Pitts, K, Plano, R, Poffenberger, P, Prepost, R, Prescott, C, Pripstein, D, Punkar, G, Putallaz, G, Raimondi, P, Rankin, P, Ratcliff, B, Reeves, T, Rensing, P, Richman, J, Rinta, R, Robertson, L, Rochester, L, Rosenson, L, Ross, M, Rothberg, J, Rothenberg, A, Rowson, P, Russell, J, Rust, D, Rutz, E, Saez, P, Santha, A, Santocchia, A, Saxton, O, Schalk, T, Schenk, P, Schindler, R, Schneekloth, U, Schneider, M, Schultz, D, Schultz, G, Schumm, B, Seeman, J, Seiden, A, Servoli, L, Settles, M, Shaevitz, M, Shank, J, Shapiro, G, Shapiro, S, Shaw, H, Sheppard, J, Sherden, D, Shimomura, T, Shoup, A, Shypit, R, Siemann, R, Simopoulos, C, Skarpaas, K, Smith, S, Snyder, A, Snyder, J, Sobie, R, Sokoloff, M, Spence, W, Spencer, E, Stlorant, S, Stamer, P, Steiner, H, Steiner, R, Stephenson, R, Stewart, G, Stiles, P, Stockdale, I, Strauss, M, Su, D, Suekane, F, Sugiyama, A, Suzuki, S, Swartz, M, Szumilo, A, Tahar, M, Takahashi, T, Tang, H, Tappern, G, Tarnopolsky, G, Taylor, F, Tecchio, M, Thaler, J, Toevs, F, Toge, N, Turcotte, M, Turk, J, Turner, J, Usher, T, Vavra, J, Vannini, C, Vella, E, Venuti, J, Verdier, R, Verdini, P, Wadsworth, B, Waite, A, Walker, N, Walz, D, Warner, D, Watt, R, Watts, S, Weber, T, Weidemann, A, Whitaker, J, White, S, Wickens, F, Wickert, S, Williams, D, Williams, R, Williams, S, Wilson, R, Wisniewski, W, Witherell, M, Woodly, M, Woods, M, Word, G, Wyss, J, Yamamoto, R, Yamartino, J, Yee, C, Yeremian, A, Yellin, S, Yim, A, Young, C, Young, K, Yuta, H, Zapalac, G, Zdarko, R, Zeitlin, C, Zhou, J, Ziemann, V, Zolotorev, M, and Zucchelli, P

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Positron beam, Electron–positron annihilation, media_common.quotation_subject, General Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Weinberg angle, Electron, Polarization (waves), Asymmetry, Nuclear physics, Cathode ray, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, media_common
Abstract

We present the first measurement of the left-right cross-section asymmetry (ALR) in Z-boson production observed at the SLAC Linear Collider. In 1992 the SLD detector recorded 10 224 Z events produced by the collision of longitudinally polarized electrons with an unpolarized positron beam at a center-of-mass energy of 91.55 GeV. The average electron beam polarization during the run was (22.4 ± 0.6)%. We measure ALR to be 0.100 ± 0.0440 (stat.) ±0.004 (syst.), which determines the effective weak mixing angle to be $\sin^2\theta_W^{\rm {eff}} = 0.2378\pm 0.0056\, ({\rm stat.})\pm 0.0005\, ({\rm syst.})$.

Published
1993

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