Precise measurement of the weak mixing angle in neutrino-nucleon scattering

Journal Article · Mon May 30 04:00:00 EDT 1994 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3452· OSTI ID:7116918

Arroyo, C G; King, B J; Bachmann, K T; Bazarko, A O; Bolton, T; Foudas, C; Lefmann, W C; Leung, W C; Mishra, S R; Oltman, E; Quintas, P Z; Rabinowitz, S A; Sciulli, F J; Seligman, W G; Shaevitz, M H ^[1]; Merritt, F S; Oreglia, M J; Schumm, B A ^[2]; Bernstein, R H; Borcherding, F ; Fisk, H E; Lamm, M J; Marsh, W; Merritt, K W.B.; Schellman, H M; Yovanovitch, D D ^[3]; Bodek, A; Budd, H S; de Barbaro, P; Sakumoto, W K ^[4]; Kinnel, T; Sandler, P H; Smith, W H ^[5]

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1. Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 (United States)
2. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
3. Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
4. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 (United States)
5. University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)

We report a precise measurement of the weak mixing angle from the ratio of neutral current to charged current inclusive cross sections in deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering. The data were gathered at the CCFR neutrino detector in the Fermilab quadrupole-triplet beam, with neutrino energies up to 600 GeV. Using the on-shell definition, sin[sup 2][theta][sub [ital W]]==1[minus][ital M][sub [ital W]][sup 2]/[ital M][sub [ital Z]][sup 2], we obtain sin[sup 2][theta][sub [ital W]]=0.2218[plus minus]0.0025(stat)[plus minus]0.0036(expt syst)[plus minus]0.0037(model).

• OSTI ID: 7116918
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States) Vol. 72:22; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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