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Measurement of the Effective Weak Mixing Angle in pp[over ¯]→Z/γ^{*}→e^{+}e^{-} Events.
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Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2015 Jul 24; Vol. 115 (4), pp. 041801. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Jul 22. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- We present a measurement of the fundamental parameter of the standard model, the weak mixing angle sin^{2}θ_{eff}^{ℓ} which determines the relative strength of weak and electromagnetic interactions, in pp[over ¯]→Z/γ^{*}→e^{+}e^{-} events at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using data corresponding to 9.7 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The effective weak mixing angle is extracted from the forward-backward charge asymmetry as a function of the invariant mass around the Z boson pole. The measured value of sin^{2}θ_{eff}^{ℓ}=0.23147±0.00047 is the most precise measurement from light quark interactions to date, with a precision close to the best LEP and SLD results.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1079-7114
- Volume :
- 115
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Physical review letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 26252676
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.041801