Precise Measurement Of The Left Right Cross Section Asymmetry In Z Boson Production By Ee Collisions

Download or read book Precise Measurement of the Left-right Cross Section Asymmetry in Z Boson Production by Ee− Collisions written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a precise measurement of the left-right cross section asymmetry (A{sub LR}) for Z boson production by ee− collisions. The measurement was performed at a center-of-mass energy of 91.26 GeV with the SLD detector at the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC). The luminosity-weighted average polarization of the SLC electron beam was (63.0 ± 1.1)%. Using a sample of 49,392 Z decays, they measure A{sub LR} to be 0.1628 ± 0.0071 (stat.) ± 0.0028(syst.) which determines the effective weak mixing angle to be sin2 [theta]{sub W}{sup eff} = 0.2292 ± 0.0009(stat.) ± 0.0004(syst.). They combine this result with the result obtained in 1992 and obtain sin2 [theta]{sub W}{sup eff} = 0.2294 ± 0.0010, which constitutes the best measurement of sin2 [theta]{sub W}{sup eff} in a single experiment presently available.