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Title: An Improved Direct Measurement of Leptonic Coupling Asymmetries with Polarized Z bosons

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/784721· OSTI ID:784721

We present final measurements of the Z boson-lepton coupling asymmetry parameters A{sub e}, A{sub {mu}}, and A{sub {tau}} with the complete sample of polarized Z bosons collected by the SLD detector at the SLAC Linear Collider. From the left-right production and decay polar angle asymmetries in leptonic Z decays we measure A{sub e} = 0.1544 {+-} 0.0060, A{sub {mu}} = 0.142 {+-} 0.015, and A{sub {tau}} = 0.136 {+-} 0.015. Combined with our left-right asymmetry measured from hadronic decays, we find A{sub e} = 0.1516 {+-} 0.0021. Assuming lepton universality, we obtain a combined effective weak mixing angle of sin{sup 2} {theta}{sub W}{sup eff} = 0.23098 {+-} 0.00026.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
784721
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-8618; TRN: US0108542
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 9 Oct 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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